While the mainstream media offers diversions to the public—such as Jason Kenney’s apology following his non-apology (for using gutter language in his dismissive misfired missive about Alberta’s deputy premier Thomas Lukaszuk)—many in the country missed a much more significant bit of news from the House. Fifteen “Conservative” MPs voted in favour of Bill-279, a bill giving special rights to transsexual / transgendered people and viewed by many social conservatives as likely to expose children to further attacks on their biological sexual identity.
Chris Alexander (Ajax—Pickering)
Michael Chong (Wellington—Halton Hills)
John Duncan (Vancouver Island North)
Kerry-Lynne D. Findlay (Delta—Richmond East)
Jim Flaherty (Whitby—Oshawa)
Shelly Glover (Saint Boniface)
Laurie Hawn (Edmonton Centre)
Gerald Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret’s)
Cathy McLeod (Kamloops—Thompson—Cariboo)
Lisa Raitt (Halton)
Michelle Rempel (Calgary Centre-North)
Bruce Stanton (Simcoe North)
Bernard Trottier (Etobicoke—Lakeshore)
Bernard Valcourt (Madawaska—Restigouche)
David Wilks (Kootenay—Columbia)