Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to table a petition signed by 157 students from the Quatre Vents school in Beauport, during a class of teacher Léo-Paul Thomassin, where the issue of democracy and respect for the rights of children was raised.
The petitioners are asking the House of Commons to promote the respect of children's rights, as recognized in the Convention on the Rights of the Child, which urges participating states to ensure the implementation of certain articles, including articles 27.1, 27.3, 34 and 35, and to ask the United States to ratify that convention.