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Canada Stem Cell, Hate Crimes Bills Not Dead With Prorogation of Parliament
Will resume at the Senate stage when parliament reconvenes
OTTAWA, November 14, 2003 (LifeSiteNews.com) Pro-life and pro-family advocates are urged not to consider the omnibus stem cell legislation Bill C-13, and the homosexual hate crimes bill C-250 scrapped. With the prorogation of Parliament, the bills - which were both in the Senate at the time, will automatically return to first reading stage in the Senate when parliament resumes.
Under current rules, bills only die completely when Parliament is dissolved as the result of an election call. New prime minister Paul Martin is unlikely to call an election until the bill to change the electoral boundaries has been passed by the Senate, where it was at the time of the prorogation. Parliamentary sources suggest that the Senate may be too preoccupied with government bills to consider Svend Robinson's private member's Bill C-250 prior to the call of an election.
If the Government wants to resurrect certain or all Bills that were still in the House of Commons, it must introduce a motion and the House must adopt the motion. If a private member wants to resurrect a Bill (not a motion), still in the House, the member has 30 sitting days to reintroduce the bill and if it is in the same form as the last session it will be reinstated at the stage it was at when Parliament prorogued.
Apart from bill C-13 and C-250, other government bills of concern to life and family advocates include, anti-child-pornography bill C-20; sex-offender registry bill C-23; and bill C-38 which would decriminalize possession of small amounts of marijuana.
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