Madam Speaker, pursuant to Standing Order 36 and as certified by the clerk of petitions, I am pleased to present a petition forwarded to me by over 100 students from Cawthra Park Secondary School located in my riding of Mississauga South.
These students have expressed their concern about the periodic and substantial spiking in gasoline prices based on market pressures precipitated by speculators and not on the true cost of productions or refinery or distribution costs. They are concerned about the burden it places on not only ordinary Canadians, but also on our economy as a whole.
The petitioners, therefore, call upon Parliament to take all possible measures to moderate gasoline prices and the swings in prices in the best interest of all Canadians.
I would also like to congratulate these students from Cawthra Park Secondary School for expressing their views directly to the Parliament of Canada and I encourage our youth across the land to continue to have their voices heard at all levels of government.