Mr. Speaker, our children are the families of tomorrow. It is essential that we do what is necessary to protect them. The inclusion of the undefined term sexual orientation in the Human Rights Act holds dangerous implications for Canadians and their children.
This is not simply a recent concern. The danger of including sexual orientation in the charter was addressed on January 29, 1981 by the Minister of Justice. Allow me to quote his words: "I am not here to determine what sexual orientation means. It is because of the problem of the definition of those words that we do not think they should be in the Constitution".
Those same problems of definition exist today. Consequently, the undefined term of sexual orientation must not be included in any federal legislation.
By the way, the Minister of Justice who acknowledged the problem in 1981 is the Prime Minister of Canada today.