NDP’s LGBTT Critic seeks support for controversial bathroom ‘transgender’ bill
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