February 9, 2011
Update: See how each MP voted below or on Parliament’s website here
Update 2: Globe & Mail’s Ibbitson thinks Conservatives will stall or kill C-389 in Senate
Minutes ago, Bill Siskay’s “transgender rights” Bill C-389 passed the final vote in the House of Commons, 143 for and 135 against. It now moves to the Senate where it has to go through the same process as the House of Commons. The bill could still be defeated if a majority of Senators vote it down, or if an election is called before it receives Royal Assent. Although Senators don’t represent ridings, they do represent provinces and you can still write them to share your concerns about this legislation. Click here for contact information.
An amazing thing has been happening over the past few days. ARPA Canada’s website has been inundated with visitors who made use of our Easy Mail technology to write their MPs and urge them to defeat C-389. Over 5,000 people have used Easy Mail in the past few days alone. No, that’s not a typing error. Five thousand! The vast majority of these came from the Toronto area. Since every letter was CC’d to Stephen Harper and Justice Minister Nicholson, there is no doubt that our government heard from us.
Although we are grieved that our country is making decisions that will hurt us and our children, we are encouraged that a growing number of Christians are exercising their democratic and Christian duty by being a voice for truth rather than sitting on the sidelines. May God continue to show His grace and patience to our land and to each of us. Please join us in praying for our leaders and fellow-citizens, that we might bend our knees to the King of kings.
Record of Votes
YEAS
Members
Allen (Welland) André Andrews Angus Ashton Asselin Atamanenko Bachand Bagnell Bains Baird Beaudin Bennett Bevington Bigras Blais Bonsant Bouchard Bourgeois Brison Brunelle Byrne Cannon (Pontiac) Cardin Carrier Charlton Chow Christopherson Coady Coderre Comartin Cotler Crombie Crowder Cullen Cuzner D’Amours Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) Davies (Vancouver East) DeBellefeuille Demers Deschamps Desnoyers Dewar Dhaliwal Dhalla Dion Donnelly Dorion Dosanjh Dryden Duceppe Dufour Duncan (Etobicoke North) Duncan (Edmonton—Strathcona) Eyking Faille Folco Foote Freeman Fry Gagnon Garneau Gaudet Glover Goodale Gravelle Guimond (Rimouski-Neigette—Témiscouata—Les Basques) Guimond (Montmorency—Charlevoix—Haute-Côte-Nord) Hall Findlay Harris (St. John’s East) Holland Hughes Hyer Ignatieff Jennings Julian Kania Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret’s) Kennedy Laforest Laframboise Lavallée Layton LeBlanc Lee Leslie Lessard Lévesque Malo Maloway Marston Martin (Esquimalt—Juan de Fuca) Martin (Winnipeg Centre) Martin (Sault Ste. Marie) Masse Mathyssen McCallum McGuinty Ménard Mendes Minna Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Mourani Mulcair Murphy (Charlottetown) Murray Nadeau Neville Oliphant Ouellet Pacetti Paillé (Hochelaga) Paillé (Louis-Hébert) Paquette Patry Pearson Plamondon Pomerleau Proulx Rae Rafferty Raitt Ratansi Regan Rodriguez Rota Russell Savage Savoie Scarpaleggia Siksay Silva Simms Simson St-Cyr Stoffer Thi Lac Thibeault Trudeau Valeriote Vincent Wrzesnewskyj
Total: — 143
|
NAYS
Members
Abbott Ablonczy Aglukkaq Albrecht Allen (Tobique—Mactaquac) Allison Anders Anderson Armstrong Arthur Ashfield Benoit Bernier Bezan Blackburn Block Boughen Braid Breitkreuz Brown (Leeds—Grenville) Brown (Newmarket—Aurora) Brown (Barrie) Bruinooge Cadman Calandra Calkins Cannan (Kelowna—Lake Country) Cannis Carrie Casson Chong Clarke Clement Cummins Davidson Day Dechert Del Mastro Devolin Dreeshen Duncan (Vancouver Island North) Dykstra Fantino Fast Finley Flaherty Fletcher Gallant Goldring Goodyear Gourde Grewal Guergis Harper Harris (Cariboo—Prince George) Hawn Hiebert Hoback Hoeppner Holder Jean Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Karygiannis Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Kent Kerr Komarnicki Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings) Lake Lebel Lemieux Lobb Lukiwski Lunn Lunney MacKay (Central Nova) MacKenzie Malhi Mayes McColeman McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) McLeod McTeague Menzies Merrifield Moore (Fundy Royal) Nicholson Norlock O’Connor O’Neill-Gordon Obhrai Paradis Payne Petit Poilievre Preston Rajotte Rathgeber Reid Richards Richardson Rickford Ritz Saxton Schellenberger Shea Shory Sopuck Sorenson Stanton Storseth Strahl Sweet Thompson Tilson Toews Tonks Trost Tweed Uppal Van Kesteren Van Loan Vellacott Verner Wallace Warawa Warkentin Watson Weston (West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country) Weston (Saint John) Wilfert Wong Woodworth Yelich Young
Total: — 135
|
PAIRED
Members
Bellavance Boucher Galipeau Guay Lalonde Lemay Oda Smith
Total: — 8
|