The Speaker

We have many members who wish to present petitions today. I would ask members therefore to try to be very brief in presenting their petitions, although at the end I will see if there is agreement to perhaps allow a little extra time.

Hon. Kevin Sorenson (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)

Mr. Speaker, this will be the last time I ever present a petition in the House. I want to thank you for your services as Chair.

I rise today to present a number of petitions on behalf of my colleague, my seatmate and my friend, the member for Langley—Aldergrove.

In the first, the petitioners call upon Parliament to enshrine in the Criminal Code the protection of conscience for physicians and health care institutions from coercion or intimidation to provide or refer for assisted suicide or euthanasia.

Hon. Kevin Sorenson (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)

Madam Speaker, the second petition is signed by approximately 1,000 people, who are asking the Government of Canada to make a number of changes to the current drinking and driving laws in Canada.

Hon. Kevin Sorenson (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)

Madam Speaker, the third petition is signed by a group of petitioners who are calling on the House of Commons to specifically identify hospice palliative care as a defined medicinal service covered under the Canada Health Act.

In the speech given by the member for Langley—Aldergrove, he spoke a lot about palliative care.

Hon. Kevin Sorenson (Battle River—Crowfoot, CPC)

Madam Speaker, lastly, I present a petition calling on all members of Parliament to condemn discrimination against girls occurring through sex-selective pregnancy termination.

I would like to take one minute to let our friend and colleague the member for Langley—Aldergrove know that our thoughts and prayers are with him and his family.

Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)

Madam Speaker, I am tabling a number of petitions from my riding of Courtenay—Alberni.

The first is a petition for pharmacare for all.

Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)

Madam Speaker, the second is a petition to withdraw Bill C-27 to protect defined benefit plans.

Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)

Madam Speaker, the third is a petition to honour the automatic guaranteed income supplement program.

Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)

Madam Speaker, the fourth petition calls for a national cycling strategy.

Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)

Madam Speaker, the fifth petition is in support of my motion, Motion No. 151, to combat plastic pollution in aquatic environments.

Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)

Madam Speaker, the sixth petition asks to create a zero-waste Canada.

Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)

Madam Speaker, the seventh petition asks the government to invest in girls and women in the world's poorest countries.

Mr. Gord Johns (Courtenay—Alberni, NDP)

Madam Speaker, the final petition is for a framework for action to promote eye and vision care across Canada.

Ms. Christine Moore (Abitibi—Témiscamingue, NDP)

Madam Speaker, today I am presenting a petition calling for the creation of a national strategy to combat plastic pollution in our waterways.

This type of pollution is extremely worrisome, particularly because it affects aquatic fauna. I have been fishing for as long as I can remember and I am deeply concerned about the increasing number of fish that ingest plastic, which then ends up in our food chain.

This is a critical issue, especially if we consider the communities for which fishing is a traditional activity.

Mr. Robert-Falcon Ouellette (Winnipeg Centre, Lib.)

[Member spoke in Cree]

[English]

Madam Speaker, I would like to highlight the work of students at the Met School and other schools in Winnipeg, who, as a school project, raised the issue of water for indigenous peoples. Their fashion project “Strut for Shoal” was a great success. The federal government has finally built Freedom Road, with its grand opening last week, connecting the community with better access.

The students also created a petition calling upon the federal government to ensure a water treatment plant is built and available in Shoal Lake 40. These are fine, young Canadians who are doing fine work for all indigenous peoples and all Canadians.

Mrs. Salma Zahid (Scarborough Centre, Lib.)

Madam Speaker, I would like to present a petition signed by hundreds of my constituents who are concerned about the deteriorating situation in Libya. They call upon the Government of Canada to condemn the unjustifiable and continued offensive military operation by General Haftar on Tripoli; to play an active role in condemning the well-documented war crimes and human rights violations committed by General Haftar's Libyan National Army; to assume a needed, effective leading position to assist in bringing the perpetrators to justice; and to assist UN efforts by providing necessary humanitarian aid to the internationally recognized Government of National Accord, the Red Crescent charities and NGOs to help the war victims and the thousands of displaced people.

Mr. David Anderson (Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC)

Madam Speaker, I have a number of petitions on two subjects.

The first consists of eight petitions, including an electronic petition, with almost 4,000 signatures. The petitioners call on the government to ensure that conscience rights of medical personnel are protected by passing Bill C-418.

Mr. David Anderson (Cypress Hills—Grasslands, CPC)

Madam Speaker, the second petition references that on April 7, 2017, Arianna Goberdhan and her unborn child Assara were murdered in a brutal act of domestic violence. At the time of the murder, she was nine months pregnant with her soon-to-be-born daughter. Assara and other preborn children in similar circumstances deserve to be recognized as victims of a crime and should be entitled to justice and legal recourse. Therefore, petitioners call upon the House of Commons to pass legislation that recognizes that when an assailant in the commission of a crime attacks a pregnant woman and injures or kills her preborn child, the assailant may be charged with an offence on behalf of that child.

Hon. Michelle Rempel (Calgary Nose Hill, CPC)

Madam Speaker, especially in light of the announcement yesterday by the Prime Minister on the Trans Mountain pipeline, which re-announced the project, which had absolutely no start date or any sort of plan to actually build the thing, I am presenting a petition on behalf of my constituents who would like Bill C-69, the “no more pipelines” bill, repealed, as well as for the government to review the equalization formula, given the punitive positions that the government has taken against Canada's energy sector. I support this petition.

The Assistant Deputy Speaker (Mrs. Carol Hughes)

The hon. member knows that she is not to indicate whether she supports a petition, she is just to table it and give a summary of the petition itself.

The hon. member for North Island—Powell River.