Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition from a number of Canadians, including from my own 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 determined by elected members of Parliament and not by the unelected judiciary, and that it is the duty of Parliament to define marriage.
Therefore, the petitioners 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 to protect the current definition of marriage as being the legal union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.