Mr. Speaker, with considerable emotion, I table today a petition supporting the debate I tried to initiate when I left the House with my chair.
This petition is signed by 50,000 people and reads as follows:
“We the undersigned hereby express to the House our great distress that the gap between rich and poor continues to widen despite the economic growth in recent years; that this situation has a significant impact on our quality of live; and that our House of Commons representatives' ability to act for the public good seems to be limited by the economic laws dictated by globalization.
Accordingly, your petitioners ask Parliament to form a parliamentary committee whose mandate would be to examine Canadian parliamentarians' ability to reduce the gap between rich and poor in the new context created by globalization and to propose specific solutions.”
I would like to thank, in closing, all those who have helped circulate this petition.