Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition signed by a number of Canadians, including from my own riding of Mississauga South, on the issue of stem cells.
The petitioners would like to draw to the attention of the House that hundreds of thousands of Canadians suffer from debilitating illnesses and diseases and that Canadians at large support ethical stem cell research which has already shown encouraging potential to provide cures and therapies for those illnesses and diseases.
They also want to point out that non-embryonic stem cells, which are also known as adult stem cells, have shown significant research progress without the immune rejection or ethical problems associated with embryonic stem cells.
The petitioners, therefore, call upon Parliament to focus its legislative support on adult stem cell research to find the cures and therapies necessary to treat the illnesses and diseases of suffering Canadians.