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OTTAWA, Ontario, June 14, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) - A small number of Conservatives were responsible last week for a swing in the vote that helped a private member’s bill pass its second reading that aims at giving what its sponsor calls “specific protections” to “transsexual and transgendered Canadians”. Once considered social conservative Jim Flaherty voted for the bill. Bill C-279,  an Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression) passed June 6 by a vote of 150 to 132. The bill would not have passed had the Conservatives voted the other way. The Conservative  MPs who supported  the bill are the following: Mr. Chris Alexander  (Ajax-Pickering) Mr. Michael Chong  (Wellington-Halton Hills) Mr. John Duncan  (Vancouver Island North) Ms. Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay  ( Delta-Richmond East ) Mr. Jim Flaherty  (Whitby-Oshawa) Mrs. Shelly Glover  (Saint Boniface) Mr. Laurie Hawn  (Edmonton Centre) Mr. Gerald Keddy  ( South

OTTAWA, Ontario, May 22, 2012 ( LifeSiteNews.com ) – A bill to amend the Ontario Human Rights Code to include “gender identity” and “gender expression” in the list of prohibited grounds of discrimination passed its second reading on May 10 in the provincial legislature. Bill 33 is sponsored by NDP Cheri DiNovo , MPP (Parkdale-High Park). It is the fourth time the bill has been introduced, but the first time it has reached its second reading. During her presentation of the Bill prior to the vote, DiNovo referred to Joan of Arc as an historical transgendered person and compared Toby Dancer, a deceased transgender person whom Bill 33 is named after, to the highly revered Catholic saint . St. Joan of Arc “At Toby’s funeral, I said, ‘We may be the first church … to put a stained glass window in the sanctuary depicting a trans person,’ because we had one made of Toby playing the piano. … somebody called out, ‘What about Joan of Arc?’ … What about those trans people in history th

OTTAWA, Ontario, April 17, 2012 (LifeSiteNews.com) – A private members bill was recently debated in parliament that aims at giving what its sponsor calls “specific protections” to “transsexual and transgendered Canadians.” Bill C-279  (formerly Bill C-389) sponsored by NDP MP Randall Garrison ( Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca , BC) is a proposition to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code to include “gender identity” and “ gender expression ” as prohibited grounds of discrimination. NDP MP Randall Garrison “I firmly believe that the bill would help complete what we might call Canada ’s human rights project,” said Garrison, NDP’s LGBTT Critic (Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Transexual ) during  parliamentary debate  of the bill on April 5th. The controversial private members bill, dubbed by critics as the “bathroom bill” because it would likely allow men who say they are women to use women’s washrooms, passed the House of Commons in February 2011, but died when t

OTTAWA, Ontario,  – A private members bill introduced into the Canadian House of Commons is seeking to delete the controversial “hate speech” Image via Wikipedia  provision in the Human Rights Act that has been used to silence Christians and conservatives who express politically incorrect opinions. “I’ve been working with colleagues to try to make sure that we make some changes to a piece of legislation that is flawed and — quite frankly — has been abused over the last several of years,” said Conservative MP Brian Storseth (Westlock- St. Paul, AB ) who introduced the bill, to Sun News. Conservative MP Brian Storseth Bill C-304  proposes to delete  Section 13  of the Canadian Human Rights Act (CHRA) to ensure that there is no “infringement on freedom of expression” as guaranteed by the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms . It received its first reading on September 30th, 2011. Critics of section 13 have long argued that the clause creates the precise equivalent to a ‘thought c

Image via Wikipedia The controversial ‘transgender’ bill died on the order paper after the Canadian Parliament was dissolved over the weekend with the election call for May 2nd. Bill C-389, which sought to add “gender identity” and “ gender expression ” to the Canada Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code ’s hate crimes section, had moved to the Senate after it passed in the House of Commons February 9th in a vote of 143-135. The bill, which was opposed by numerous religious and pro-family organizations, was dubbed a ‘bathroom bill’ because it would allow men who say they are women to use women’s washrooms. Opponents said this could lead to an increase in bathroom attacks against women and children. The bill’s future could be in doubt as its sponsor, NDP member Bill Siksay , who made two previous attempts to get it passed in 2006 and 2007, has opted not to run in the current election.  Though numerous senators supported the bill, Siksay had failed to find a senator to bring it bef