Mr. Speaker, these almost 700 petitioners draw the attention of the House to the fact that hundreds of thousands of Canadians suffer from debilitating diseases and that Canadians do support ethical stem cell research, which already has shown encouraging potential to provide cures and therapies for these illnesses and diseases.
They also remind us that non-embryonic stem cells, known as adult stem cells, have shown significant research progress without the immune rejection or ethical problems associated with embryonic stem cells.
They want Parliament to focus its legislative support on adult stem cell research to find the cures and the therapies necessary to treat the illnesses and diseases of suffering Canadians.