Madam Speaker, I have the honour to present a number of petitions. The first petition is signed by a number of residents of Toronto, Ottawa and my own constituency of Burnaby-Kingsway. It notes that acts of discrimination against lesbian, gay and bisexual Canadians are an every day reality in all regions of Canada. It goes on to document some of the forms that discrimination takes in Canada.
The petitioners therefore call upon Parliament to act quickly to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to prohibit discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and to adopt all necessary measures to recognize the full equality of same sex relationships in federal law.