Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition duly certified which contains about 1,500 names of people from my riding and from the province of Quebec. It notes that the Senate of Canada costs taxpayers some $50 million a year, that it is redundant, that it undermines the role of MPs in the House of Commons, and that there is a need to modernize our parliamentary institutions. It calls upon parliament to undertake measures aimed at the abolition of the Senate.
In the House of Commons on March 3rd, 1999. See this statement in context.