OTTAWA, April 2, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - A Liberal-dominated Commons Committee announced Thursday that an election call will be delayed until testimony from Chuck Guite, a key figure in the federal sponsorship affair, is made public. Guite is not due back from his holidays until April 22 or 23.
The bill, which would add ‘sexual orientation’ to Canada’s hate crimes law, is delayed now until the Senate’s scheduled return on April 20. This means the Senate will have time to vote on Bill C-250 before the expected testimony from Guite. A small group of pro-family Senators, led especially by the fearless Liberal Senator Cools, worked intensely this week, using every tactic available to them, to successfully delay a vote on C-250.
Pro-family groups are urging all concerned Canadians to continue to flood the Senators and Liberal leader Paul Martin and Conservative leader Stephen Harper with calls and emails asking them to stop the bill.
See Hansard of the April 1 debate on C-250 http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/040402a.html Senators Contact info: http://www.campaignlifecoalition.com/political_lists/canadian_senators.htm Prime Minister Paul Martin Comments by e-mail to pm@pm.gc.ca Prime Minister’s office: Office of the Prime Minister 80 Wellington Street Ottawa K1A 0A2 Fax: 613-941-6900 Conservative Leader Stephen Harper 613-996-6740 See Thursday’s LifeSiteNews.com report “Canadian Homosexual Hate Crimes Bill Successfully Delayed Until at Least April 20,” at: http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2004/apr/04040101.html Read “Summary of Objections to Bill C250” from the Catholic Civil Rights League, at: http://www.ccrl.ca/resources_CCRL_C250.html See National Count the Cost postcard and action campaign against C-250 http://www.countthecost.ca/cfm.html