38^th Parliament, 1^st Session

Edited Hansard • Number 012

Wednesday, October 20, 2004

ROUTINE PROCEEDINGS

[Hansard Page 611]

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Recognition and Protection of Human Rights

and Fundamental Freedoms Act

    Mr. Garry Breitkreuz (Yorkton—Melville, CPC) moved for leave to introduce Bill C-235, an act to amend An Act for the Recognition and Protection of Human Rights and Fundamental Freedoms and to amend the Constitution Act, 1867.

    He said: Mr. Speaker, the government's legislative record of intruding on individual property rights is appalling and this is the reason I am reintroducing my property rights bill today. Protection of property rights needs strengthening in federal law because they were intentionally left out of the Charter of Rights and Freedoms. My bill would make up for this grave omission by strengthening the property rights provisions in the Canadian Bill of Rights. Court case after court case has proven that Canadians have no protection whatsoever to the arbitrary taking of property by the federal government. My bill would also require a two-thirds majority vote of this House whenever the government passed laws that override fundamental property rights, such as the species at risk act, the cruelty to animals legislation, the firearms act and the Canadian Wheat Board Act.

    (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)

For complete text of Breitkreuz’s Bill C-235:

http://www.parl.gc.ca/38/1/parlbus/chambus/house/bills/private/C-235/C-235_1/C-235_cover-E.html