Mr. Speaker, I have a second petition, with respect to marriage, signed by 100 petitioners from Ontario and Alberta. The petitioners call upon the Government of Canada to support and protect the past legal definition of marriage as the voluntary union of a man and a woman.
They ask that we do all things within the power of Parliament legislatively and administratively to preserve and protect the traditional heterosexual definition of marriage as between one man and one woman and that it should not be the role of the unelected judiciary to decide such fundamental matters of policy.