Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition on behalf of a number of Canadians, including from my riding of Mississauga South, on the subject of marriage.
The petitioners would like to draw to the attention of the House that the majority of Canadians believe that fundamental matters of social policy should be decided by elected members of Parliament and not by the unelected judiciary.
They therefore call upon Parliament to use all possible legislative and administrative matters, including the invocation of section 33 of the charter known as the notwithstanding clause, to protect the current definition of marriage being the lawful union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.