Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present a petition on behalf of a number of Canadians, including from my own riding of Mississauga South, concerning the subject of marriage.
The petitioners would like to draw to the attention of the House that fundamental matters of social policy should be made by elected members of Parliament and not by the unelected judiciary. They also want to remind us that Parliament has the sole jurisdiction to define 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 to protect the current definition of marriage, being the legal union of one man and one woman to the exclusion of all others.