Mr. Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36, I am pleased to present a petition to the House signed by a number of Canadians, including from my own riding of Mississauga South, concerning the definition of marriage. We have received many of these but I think it is a very important issue that bears repeating.
The petitioners would like to draw to the attention of the House that the majority of Canadians believe that the fundamental matters of social policy should be decided by elected members of Parliament and not by an unelected judiciary. They also point out that the majority of Canadians support the current traditional definition of marriage.
They petition Parliament to use all possible legislative and administrative measures, including invoking section 33 of the charter, commonly referred to as the notwithstanding clause, if necessary, to preserve and protect the current definition of marriage as between one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.