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House Hansard - 180

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
April 19, 2023 02:00PM
Context: House Hansard - 180 - Apr/19/23
Mr. Arnold Viersen (Peace River—Westlock, CPC)
  • Apr/19/23 4:01:20 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, I am pleased to present petitions signed by Canadians from across the country. They are concerned about the comments from Louis Roy of the Quebec college of physicians. He recommended euthanasia for babies coming into the world with severe deformities or serious syndromes to occur from birth to one year of age. This proposed legalization of the killing of infants has deeply disturbed many Canadians, and they want to make sure that this place understands that infanticide is always wrong. Therefore, they are calling on the Government of Canada to block any attempt to bring this forward.
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Context: House Hansard - 180 - Apr/19/23
Mr. Arnold Viersen (Peace River—Westlock, CPC)
Mr. Speaker, the next petition I have to present is from Canadians from across the country who want to have the right to be protected from discrimination. Canadians can and do face discrimination, and it is fundamental that Canada has the right to be politically active, which is in the best interest of Canadian democracy. They want to ensure that public debate and the exchange of differing ideas continues, and they are asking for Bill C-257 to add protection against political discrimination to the Canadian Human Rights Act. Therefore, the undersigned are calling for the support of this bill to defend the rights of all Canadians to peacefully express their political opinions.
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Context: House Hansard - 180 - Apr/19/23
Mr. Arnold Viersen (Peace River—Westlock, CPC)
  • Apr/19/23 4:02:45 p.m.
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Mr. Speaker, the final petition I have to present today comes from Canadians from across the country who are concerned about the increased risk of violence against women when they are pregnant. Currently, the injury or death of preborn children as victims of crime is not considered an aggravating circumstance in sentencing as proposed in the Criminal Code of Canada. Canada has no abortion law. This legal void is so extreme that we do not even recognize preborn children as victims of crime. Justice requires that an attacker who abuses a pregnant woman and her preborn children be sentenced accordingly. The sentence should match the crime. Therefore, the people who have signed the petition are calling on the House of Commons to legislate the abuse of a pregnant woman and the infliction of harm on her preborn child as an aggravating circumstance for sentencing proposed in the Criminal Code.
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