Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition on behalf of a number of Canadians, including my own riding of Mississauga South. The petitioners would like to point out that the majority of Canadians believe that the fundamental matters of social policy should be decided by elected members of Parliament and not by the unelected judiciary, and that they support the traditional definition of marriage.
They call upon Parliament to use all possible legislative and administrative measures including the invocation of section 33 of the charter, known as the notwithstanding clause, to preserve and protect the current definition of marriage which is the legal union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.