Mr. Speaker, I also have a petition on the subject of marriage. There are some 300 signatures on the petition, from one side of the country to the other, from Fredericton to Summerside, New Brunswick, Winnipeg, B.C., Edmonton, Alberta and places in between, including Toronto.
The petitioners call upon the same request, that the institution of marriage, the bond between one man and one woman, is a serious moral good. Marriage is the lasting union of man and woman to the exclusion of all others and it cannot and should not be modified by a legislative act or by a court of law.
They therefore request that Parliament take whatever action is required to maintain the current definition of marriage in law, in perpetuity, to prevent any court from overturning or amending that definition.