Madam Speaker, I have three petitions to present, pursuant to Standing Order 36. The certifiers must be very busy because they have just listed the pages and not the total number of signatories.
The first petition says that because of the inclusion of sexual orientation in the Canadian Human Rights Act it will provide certain groups with special status, rights and privileges; and because these special rights and privileges would be granted solely on the basis of sexual behaviour; and because inclusion would infringe on the historic rights of Canadians such as freedom of religion, conscience, expression and association, the petitioners call on Parliament to oppose any amendments to the Canadian Human Rights Act or the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms which would provide for the inclusion of the phrase sexual orientation.
The signatories come basically from the Langham, Asquith and Saskatoon area.