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Wednesday June 14, 2000
ANOTHER 32,000 SIGNATURES AGAINST CHILD PORNOGRAPHY
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OTTAWA, June 14 (LSN.ca) - Today, Canadian Alliance MPs tabled petitions containing approximately 32,000 more signatures of people who are dissatisfied with the federal government's inaction on child pornography.
"The House of Commons is on the verge of going into its summer recess, and still we see no action from the Liberals to protect our children from sexual predators," said Eric Lowther, Official Opposition critic for Children and Family Policy. "It has been almost a year and a half since the original Sharpe ruling in British Columbia, and it is disgraceful that the Liberals have not put a stop to the offensive notion that child pornography is somehow legitimate. They give lip service to a 'children's agenda,' but they fail where it counts."
The petitions tabled today are added to the hundreds of thousands of signatures on petitions already tabled since the original Sharpe ruling of January, 1999, which struck down the Criminal Code prohibition of the possession of child pornography in British Columbia. The petitioners urge the government to ensure that child pornography remains a serious Criminal Code offence, up to and including the use of the notwithstanding clause of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. This is the single largest petition tabled in the House of Commons in this Parliament, by a large margin.
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