She was among Tories who Liberal ministers hugged in the House. Labour Minster Seamus O’Regan told reporters he believed Michelle Rempel Garner, a well-known Conservative MP who has long advocated in favour of LGBTQ rights, had something to do with it. “We said that we wanted people to be on the right side of history … nobody can consent to torture, and so I think that message got drilled home by leaders in the Conservative party.”īoissonnault added he believes that leadership came from O’Toole’s front and mid-benches - not from MPs from his backbench. “I think political people in this country do not want to be on the record anymore opposing LGBTQ issues because they’re fundamental human rights,” said Tourism Minister Randy Boissonnault. Wednesday’s motion to fast-track the House’s process, however, meant that no recorded vote needed to be held.
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Numerous Conservative MPs - namely those who hail from its social conservative wing - complained at the time the wording of the bill was overly broad and could criminalize conversations about sexuality between children and their parents or with religious leaders.įive months later and faced with another vote, O’Toole’s office said Tuesday he would again let MPs have a free vote on the new bill, which prompted criticism from at least one advocacy group that pushed for it to be supported by all parliamentarians. The government’s gratitude for the Conservatives’ handling of the legislation to criminalize the practice represented a dramatic shift from just a few months ago, when MPs debated an older version of the bill.Īt that time, 62 out of O’Toole’s 119 MPs voted against the legislation, which passed the House but failed to clear the Senate before it rose for summer, and ultimately died when Prime Minister Justin Trudeau triggered an election. They have done a very important thing for Canadians.”Ĭonversion therapy, as it’s called, is widely discredited as a harmful practice, aimed at trying to change an individual’s sexual orientation or gender identity.
“There are clearly people in the Conservative caucus who exercised a great deal of leadership on the issue, and I thank them.
“There are clearly people in the Conservative caucus that we need to thank,” he said, flanked by some of the Liberals’ openly gay ministers. The only hint something may have been afoot came from Conservative Leader Erin O’Toole who, after leaving the meeting, told reporters his caucus planned to accelerate the bill’s passage, but without providing any specifics.Īfter the motion was approved by the House, Liberal Justice Minister David Lametti emerged to provide some credit he felt was due. The lighting-fast speed at which it unfolded was initiated in the House by Conservative justice critic Rob Moore, who presented the motion during Wednesday’s sitting after the Tory caucus met earlier in the day. That legislation, introduced earlier in the week, will now proceed to the Senate, as no MP spoke out against the move to skip the routine legislative debate. Canada’s House of Commons erupted into a scene of cheers and cross-party hugs Wednesday as MPs unanimously adopted a motion presented by a Conservative MP to fast-track the passage of a Liberal government bill banning conversion therapy for LGBTQ Canadians.
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