Randy Boissonnault at the Justice and Human Rights Committee

On October 24th, 2018. See this statement in context.

October 24th, 2018 / 5:20 p.m.

Liberal

Randy Boissonnault Liberal Edmonton Centre, AB

This is former section 159 in the Criminal Code. The LGBTQ community has been asking for decades for it to be removed from the Criminal Code. It criminalizes same-sex consensual activity between consenting young men. This discrimination doesn't exist for young women, but it exists for men aged 16 to 18. It's the right thing to do. We need to have this removed from our Criminal Code. I'm very happy we're doing this.

I'd like a roll call vote.

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