House of Commons Hansard #236 of the 36th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was information.
Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral Bloc Laval Centre, QC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to table in the House the report of the Canadian group of the Canada-France Interparliamentary Association which attended the meeting of the association's standing committee in Paris and in the Aquitaine region from February 21 to 27.
Keith Martin Reform Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, BC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present Motion No. 634, that in the opinion of this House, all parliamentary secretaries be removed from all standing committees and that they not be allowed to be on these committees again. The reason is that they have become mouthpieces—
Interparliamentary DelegationsRoutine Proceedings
The Deputy Speaker
Order, please. I believe the hon. member has a notice of Motion No. 634 on the notice paper. My recollection is that it is a motion under Private Members' Business, is it not? Perhaps he can inform me if that is the case.
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The Deputy Speaker
If so, it has to wait until it gets drawn for debate in the usual course before he can make a speech on the subject, unless he is seeking consent from the House to have that debate now, which I did not sense he was.
Keith Martin Reform Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca, BC
I would like to ask for consent now and make a short speech.
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The Deputy Speaker
Is there unanimous consent?
Dale Johnston Reform Wetaskiwin, AB
Mr. Speaker, I have three petitions to present.
The first one is from PMU producers in my province. They urge the government to support and recognize the unique contribution PMU ranchers make to women's health care and to withdraw proposed regulations that would permit or encourage substitution of non-equivalent synthetic estrogen products for Premarin.
Dale Johnston Reform Wetaskiwin, AB
Mr. Speaker, the second petition is quite a lengthy one. It has to do with child custody for divorced parents.
The petition states that no parent should ever lose custody of a child by legal process; no parent should be denied adequate parenting time; and no parent should be allowed to seriously obstruct a child's relationship with the other parent. In other words, this is about parental access to children in matrimonial breakups.
Dale Johnston Reform Wetaskiwin, AB
Mr. Speaker, the third petition is on the defence of marriage. The petitioners from Alberta are saying that they would like parliament to define the statute that a marriage can only be entered into between a single male and a single female.
Bernard Patry Liberal Pierrefonds—Dollard, QC
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I have the honour to submit a petition signed by residents from my riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard.
The petitioners are asking the Canadian parliament to oppose the sale of Candu nuclear power reactors to Turkey, and they hope that all necessary measures will be taken in that regard.
John Williams Reform St. Albert, AB
Mr. Speaker, I have three petitions today. The first one is being submitted on behalf of the children of separation and divorce who are asking for their rights to be loved and nurtured by both parents with numerous examples of how that should be done.
They call upon parliament to pass legislation incorporating these rights of children and the principle of equality between and among parents to bring that about.
John Williams Reform St. Albert, AB
Mr. Speaker, I have two further petitions, one signed primarily by people in the Vegreville, Alberta area and the other signed by people in and around my constituency who became aware that the President of the Treasury Board wanted to appropriate the pension fund belonging to 670,000 current and future retirees.
They say that the action is morally flawed. They therefore ask that Treasury Board end all actions which would undermine the confidence and morale of the public service, armed forces and RCMP personnel.
I am pleased to say that I and my Reform colleagues voted against Bill C-78.
Libby Davies NDP Vancouver East, BC
Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to rise in the House today to present a petition from about 300 petitioners from the Province of Ontario who are calling on the government to ensure that the downloading of the urban native housing program does not go ahead.
The petitioners are expressing their concern about the federal government abandoning its fiduciary responsibility to aboriginal people by proceeding with the downloading of social housing. Most of these constituents are from the Province of Ontario and are outlining their very serious concerns about the abandonment and the downloading of aboriginal housing to the province.
Howard Hilstrom Reform Selkirk—Interlake, MB
Mr. Speaker, I have a petition today from people in my riding in the Beauséjour area who are petitioning that marriage is a voluntary union of a single man and a single woman.
They pray and call upon parliament to enact Bill C-225, an act to amend the Marriage Act, so as to define in statute that a marriage can only be entered into by a single male and a single female. They pray that the House take notice of that.
Maurizio Bevilacqua Liberal Vaughan—King—Aurora, ON
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I have a petition where the petitioners request that parliament amend the Divorce Act to include a provision, as supported in Bill C-340, regarding the right of spouses, parents and grandparents to access to or custody of the child or children.
Rick Casson Reform Lethbridge, AB
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I would like to table the following petition which comes from the constituents of my beautiful riding of Lethbridge.
The petitioners accuse parliament and the Government of Canada of blindly following a careless and dangerous U.S.-NATO policy of bombing the sovereign nation of Yugoslavia. They call upon parliament and the Government of Canada to disengage from such policy and bring our troops home.
Jim Pankiw Reform Saskatoon—Humboldt, SK
Mr. Speaker, I have three petitions to present today all containing hundreds of signatures.
The first petition calls upon parliament to enact legislation to allow veterans' spouses to receive benefits under the Veterans Independence Program until their own death.
Jim Pankiw Reform Saskatoon—Humboldt, SK
Mr. Speaker, the second petition calls upon the House to totally reject the recommendations of the MacKay task force report pertaining to the entry of banks into the casualty and property insurance markets.
Jim Pankiw Reform Saskatoon—Humboldt, SK
Mr. Speaker, the third petition draws the attention of the House to the following: that Canada in her bill of rights recognize the supremacy of God, that God recognize the unborn child and forbids the taking of an innocent life.
The petitioners humbly pray and call upon parliament to repeal laws allowing abortion.
PetitionsRoutine Proceedings
The Deputy Speaker
I invite the hon. member to avoid reading. I know he is supposed to give a brief summary of the petition and I thought he was doing so well until he got to the last one.
Bev Desjarlais NDP Churchill, MB
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I present literally hundreds of signatures, which now, added to those collected, will probably add up to thousands, from urban aboriginals in Ontario who have come to me and other caucus members because they do not have the representation from the governing side of the House.
The petitioners call on the House and the government to stop the downloading of urban aboriginal housing. They want to be given the same recognition as those people involved in the co-operative housing movement in Ontario. They want to have the same right to have their housing looked after. They believe the government is shirking its fiduciary responsibility.
Leon Benoit Reform Lakeland, AB
Mr. Speaker, I have three petitions today from constituents. The first petition is with regard to marriage.
The petitioners are expressing parliament's responsibility to ensure that marriage remains defined as it always has been which is the union of a single, unmarried male and a single, unmarried female.