I Mean If There Are Going To

Have You Ever, On A Cloudless Night, Looked Down From A Passing Aircraft Flying Over Canada? Endless, Glowing Strings Of Cities, Towns, And Homesteads. Stretching On And On, One Province To The Next. With Only The Stars In The Distance.

There Are Nations That Resist, Voices That Attempt To Diminish The Urgency Or Dismiss The Science, Or Declare, Either In Word Or Indifference, That This Is Not Our Problem To Solve. Well, Let Me Tell You, It Is Our Problem To Solve... To The Reticent Nations, Including The United States, I Say This: There Is Such A Thing As A Global Conscience.

Since One Never Knows What Will Be The Line Of Advance, It Is Always Most Rash To Condemn What Is Not Quite In The Fashion Of The Moment.

I Rise Today In Support Of Bill C-38, The Civil Marriage Act. I Rise In Support Of A Canada In Which Liberties Are Safeguarded, Rights Are Protected And The People Of This Land Are Treated As Equals Under The Law.

This Is The Province That Pioneered Dreaming Big.