Madam Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, it is my elected duty to table petitions signed by residents from different regions of Ontario regarding the national AIDS strategy.
Whereas the national AIDS strategy funds and co-ordinates prevention, education, support and research in Canada, and whereas the national AIDS strategy expires March 31, 1998, while at the same time AIDS infection continues to rise, the petitioners call on Parliament to urge the Prime Minister and the Minister of Health to commit a renewal of the national AIDS strategy to at least the current levels of funding.