Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my colleagues in the national Liberal caucus I too want to indicate that we intend to support this bill.
I am pleased today to support this bill. I need not point out that we do not intend to take up a great deal of the House's time to discuss this initiative. The bill now under debate was initially tabled in the Senate and is now duly before this House.
I would like to take a few moments to point out the contribution made to Canada by the Lutheran Church and to state that we intend to support this bill and pass it as quickly as possible.
Some other members of this House will be bringing forward another bill in a few moments. We will therefore be brief in our remarks concerning this important parliamentary initiative.
As I was saying, the bill was presented in the Senate, but many members of this House had not been told about it. I know that the member for Calgary Northeast wanted to sponsor the bill, and I am certain that it is very important to him. He agreed to let another member present it, and I congratulate him on doing so in order that this bill might pass today and become law.
That being said, I want to indicate our agreement to pass this bill not only at second reading but at committee of the whole and third reading as well in order to have this bill disposed of forthwith.