Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to table a petition signed by hundreds of Canadians, including many from Dawson College and from my riding, calling upon the government to undertake its responsibility to act to stop the humanitarian crisis in Darfur.
The petition notes that since 2003 more than 400,000 have been killed and 2.5 million displaced.
Canada has a responsibility to play a leading role to save the people of Darfur from despair, rape and death.
The petition concludes with this:
We, citizens of Canada, call upon the Government of Canada to engage with the international community to end these atrocities.
We trust that the government will act in response to this cri du coeur.