moved for leave to introduce Bill C-429, an act to amend the Criminal Code (destruction of national flag).
Mr. Speaker, what I am asking, through this initiative to amend the criminal code after section 56, is that everyone who, without lawful cause, wilfully damages or destroys in any manner, burns, defaces, defiles, mutilates, tramples upon or otherwise desecrates the national flag would be guilty of an offence and liable on summary convictions.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)