Barb Tarbox  Madam Speaker, last week Barb Tarbox died, as she knew she would, from lung cancer caused by smoking. Many Canadians, especially teens, will know her as a tireless advocate against smoking. Her brutal realism and shock truth was intentional. She was saying to those kids, “Look at what smoking can do to you.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for his thoughtful speech. I want to say to him that the view over here may not be as monolithic as he may think. One of the issues that has been raised by others has to do with the practical implications of this. I will put my question for the hon. member in a provocative sort of way.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I think consistency is the big thing. The hon. member mentioned going to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention which has basically been Taiwan's window into international health issues. We had an interesting example in Toronto where we had exactly the same outbreak.

Supply  Madam Speaker, WHO's interpretation of what constitutes a state seems to be somewhat flexible. The argument is that it can only recognize a country that is a member state of the UN. Obviously Taiwan is not a member state of the UN. It rather foolishly quit. Several generations of leadership later and it is saying it was a bad idea.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I want to thank again the hon. member for bringing this motion forward. This is a timely motion and I want to congratulate him for his initiative. I am speaking in two capacities: one in my capacity as the member for Scarborough East and also in my capacity as chair of the Canada-Taiwan Parliamentary Friendship Group.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his speech and for making the effort to bring this issue to the floor of the House. Is the member satisfied that the current arrangements between Canada, Taiwan and the PRC adequately protect Canadians' health, in that now Taiwan, in particular with the SARS outbreak, is being reported in a fashion that requires it to go through China?

City of Scarborough  Mr. Speaker, as you know, the rest of Toronto, Mississauga, Markham and Durham are mere suburbs of Scarborough and once again Scarborough was called upon to save the citizens of Toronto and the country. On Sunday we witnessed the magnificent performance of Anson Carter, who learned all of his hockey in Scarborough, as he scored that lovely wrap around goal to bring Canada gold at the World Hockey Championships.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I want to reinforce the answer that the hon. member gave me. When we took in testimony we heard that if we took a five year segment for relationships and over that five years someone married, there was an 8% chance that the marriage would end in a divorce in that five year period.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member for Mississauga South for his able speech. I noted that it was almost without notes. I always admire someone who can speak without notes, but I have no such ability. I will read from a Globe and Mail article of last week by Professors Katherine Young and Paul Nathanson.

Supply  Madam Speaker, it was really interesting over the course of the hearings to start to unpack the reasons why marriage was the bedrock of our society. As one witness has put it, marriage is society's parent. It is not society's child. Therefore, no one can mess with it, including Parliament and the courts.

Supply  Madam Speaker, the hon. member hits on an extremely important point. When I went to law school, and this was pre-Charter days I am afraid to admit, the issues were simply that a judge was there to interpret what was in front of him and to build on precedents that existed. That was the circumscribed area in which judges could deal with the cases in front of them.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I appreciate the opportunity to speak on this important issue. It is an interesting motion and one that I have thought about for awhile. It highlights a frustration that many people feel with respect to the dialogue between Parliament and the courts. Some might even argue that it has become a monologue.

Canadian Environmental Assessment Act  Mr. Speaker, I will be supporting the government.

Foreign Affairs  Mr. Speaker, the SARS outbreak has created a great deal of suffering in my riding, in the GTA and in Canada. The management of the disease could have been much better handled if the Government of China had co-operated with WHO officials. The contrast between the Government of Taiwan and the Government of China could not be more stark.

Supply  Madam Speaker, I commend the hon. member's attention to the 1993 red book which contained the proposals for gun control. The 1993 red book was probably the most focused document of all documents in that election. It included a significant component with respect to gun control. I do not know where the hon. member was in 1997, but I remember knocking on doors and I can recall a couple of incidents quite vividly for me, both in 1997 and in 2000, where certain individuals would respond at the door or on the phone, and they were implacably opposed to gun control.