Mr. Speaker, I have the pleasure to rise in the House today to present three petitions. The first concerns the proposed Enbridge northern gateway pipeline that would bring more than 225 supertankers to the pristine north coast of B.C. each year. The petitioners point out that the current government has refused to acknowledge the 1972 moratorium on oil tanker traffic off the B.C. coast and calls on the Government of Canada to immediately legislate the moratorium on offshore drilling and oil tanker traffic off B.C.'s cost.
The second petition brings to our attention the fact that tens of thousands of chemicals, many of which are cancer causing, have been used in industrial processes in the production of consumer goods. The petitioners call upon the government to appoint a royal commission on the environment and health with a mandate to examine and make recommendations, using the precautionary principle.