Mr. Speaker, I have two petitions to table today.
The first petition was initiated by the Elizabeth Fry Society, which has done tremendous work in our community. The petitioners ask the House to recognize the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, to which Canada is signatory.
The petitioners call on the Government of Canada to meet the standards of the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child and recognize that there are barriers within its own direct payments to family systems and remedies that fund services, like the homelessness partnering strategy; that it provide funding for client support for children; that it provide Canada child benefits and child special allowances for all children; that it set standards within Canada's social transfer to ensure that all children, without discrimination of any form, benefit from special protection measures in assistance; and that it recognize children of parents with addictions and homeless children in need of special support to enable them to achieve improved life outcomes and receive equal benefits to their rights under the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child.