Bill C-304 Passes Second Reading! One more nail in the Section 13 coffin

 

Earlier today Bill C-304 passed Second Reading in the House of Commons.  Bill C-304 is an act to strip the censorship powers from the fanatics at the Canadian Human Rights Commission.  The vote was 158 in favour and 131 opposed. This is one more nail in the censorship coffin of Section 13.

 

The next steps for Bill C-304 is to be referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.  Then after the committee looks at it, the bill is referred back to Parliament for third and final reading.  Once that passes it goes to the Senate of Canada for review and once passed in the Senate the bill becomes law and Section 13 and 54 of the Canadian Human Rights Act are repealed!

 

Here is the details of what happened today in Parliament from the Feb 15, 2012 Journal.

 

 

 

Pursuant to Standing Order 93(1), the House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the motion of Mr. Storseth (Westlock—St. Paul), seconded by Mr. Rathgeber (Edmonton—St. Albert), — That Bill C-304, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (protecting freedom), be now read a second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.

 

The question was put on the motion and it was agreed to on the following division

 

YEAS: 158, NAYS: 131

YEAS -- POUR
Ablonczy Adams Adler Aglukkaq Albas Albrecht Alexander Allen (Tobique—Mactaquac) Allison Ambler Ambrose Anders Anderson Armstrong Ashfield Aspin Baird Bateman Benoit Bernier Bezan Blaney Block Boughen Braid Breitkreuz Brown (Leeds—Grenville) Brown (Newmarket—Aurora) Brown (Barrie) Bruinooge Butt Calandra Calkins Cannan Carmichael Carrie Chisu Chong Clarke Clement	Daniel Davidson Dechert Del Mastro Devolin Dreeshen Duncan (Vancouver Island North) Dykstra Fantino Findlay (Delta—Richmond East) Finley (Haldimand—Norfolk) Flaherty Galipeau Gill Glover Goguen Goldring Goodyear Gosal Gourde Grewal Harper Harris (Cariboo—Prince George) Hawn Hayes Hiebert Hillyer Hoback Hoeppner Holder James Jean Kamp (Pitt Meadows—Maple Ridge—Mission) Keddy (South Shore—St. Margaret's) Kenney (Calgary Southeast) Kerr Komarnicki Kramp (Prince Edward—Hastings) Lake Lauzon	Lebel Leef Leitch Lemieux Leung Lizon Lobb Lukiwski Lunney MacKay (Central Nova) MacKenzie Mayes McColeman McLeod Menegakis Menzies Merrifield Miller Moore (Port Moody—Westwood—Port Coquitlam) Moore (Fundy Royal) Nicholson Norlock O'Connor Oda Paradis Payne Penashue Poilievre Preston Raitt Rajotte Rathgeber Reid Rempel Richards Richardson Rickford Ritz Saxton Schellenberger	Seeback Shea Shipley Shory Simms (Bonavista—Gander—Grand Falls—Windsor) Smith Sopuck Sorenson Stanton Storseth Strahl Sweet Tilson Toet Toews Trost Trottier Truppe Tweed Uppal Valcourt Van Kesteren Van Loan Vellacott Wallace Warawa Warkentin Watson Weston (West Vancouver—Sunshine Coast—Sea to Sky Country) Weston (Saint John) Wilks Williamson Wong Woodworth Yelich Young (Oakville) Young (Vancouver South) Zimmer
Total: -- 158

 

NAYS -- CONTRE
Allen (Welland) Andrews Angus Atamanenko Aubin Ayala Bélanger Bellavance Bennett Benskin Blanchette Blanchette-Lamothe Boivin Borg Boulerice Boutin-Sweet Brahmi Brison Brosseau Byrne Caron Casey Cash Charlton Chicoine Chisholm Choquette Chow Christopherson Cleary Coderre Comartin Côté	Cotler Crowder Cullen Cuzner Davies (Vancouver Kingsway) Davies (Vancouver East) Day Dionne Labelle Donnelly Doré Lefebvre Dubé Duncan (Etobicoke North) Duncan (Edmonton—Strathcona) Dusseault Easter Eyking Fortin Freeman Fry Garneau Garrison Genest Genest-Jourdain Giguère Godin Goodale Gravelle Groguhé Harris (Scarborough Southwest) Harris (St. John's East) Hassainia Hsu Hughes	Hyer Jacob Julian Karygiannis Kellway Lamoureux Lapointe Larose Latendresse Laverdière LeBlanc (Beauséjour) LeBlanc (LaSalle—Émard) Leslie Liu MacAulay Mai Marston Martin Masse Mathyssen May McCallum McGuinty McKay (Scarborough—Guildwood) Michaud Moore (Abitibi—Témiscamingue) Morin (Chicoutimi—Le Fjord) Morin (Notre-Dame-de-Grâce—Lachine) Morin (Laurentides—Labelle) Morin (Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot) Mourani Murray Nantel	Nash Nicholls Nunez-Melo Pacetti Papillon Patry Péclet Perreault Plamondon Quach Rae Rafferty Ravignat Raynault Regan Rousseau Sandhu Savoie Scarpaleggia Sellah Sgro Sims (Newton—North Delta) Sitsabaiesan St-Denis Stewart Stoffer Sullivan Thibeault Tremblay Trudeau Turmel Valeriote
Total: -- 131

 

 

 

 

Accordingly, Bill C-304, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act (protecting freedom), was read the second time and referred to the Standing Committee on Justice and Human Rights.