Mr. Speaker, I have the pleasure to introduce two petitions today.
The first one, with thousands of signatures, again is on the subject matter of marriage. The petitioners from my riding of Mississauga South would like to draw to the attention of the House the fact 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, and that the majority of Canadians support the current legal definition of marriage.
The petitioners therefore call upon Parliament to use all possible legislative and administrative measures, including the invocation of section 33 of the charter, commonly known as the notwithstanding clause, to preserve and protect the current definition of marriage as that between one man and one woman, to the exclusion of all others.