Tablings
Ms Blakeman: Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker. I have four sets of tablings today all relating to Bill 44 and all, I think, generated since 5 o’clock on Friday afternoon. The first is letters from three members of the GLBT community – Tamara Gorzalka, Tyler Gschaid, and Lawrence Porter – all asking for Bill 44 to be defeated and noting, they’re telling me: Bill 44, not in our name. The government’s proposed changes are unacceptable to them despite sexual orientation being in.
The second set of tablings is from parents, educators, and the general public, eight letters expressing their opposition to Bill 44 from Helen Sadowski, Kevin Elias, Scott Rowed, Norman Gall, Sue Huff, Tracey Braun, Michelle Houston, and Dave Cournoyer.
Then a series of letters from 84 junior high, high school, and postsecondary students in Alberta. They want to assert their right to learn in an open-minded, compassionate, and tolerant environment and protest the measures in Bill 44 that would limit that right. A number of these students have included personal stories of their reaction to Bill 44.
Finally, a really passionate letter from Linda Hunter, the minister of the Wild Rose United Church in Calgary, signed by 75 members of that congregation, expressing their views that Bill 44 opens the door to censorship of public classrooms. It precludes learning to respect the right of each to be at the table. They feel it’s anti intellectual and regressive and oppressive.
Thank you very much, Mr. Speaker.
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