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OTTAWA, CANADA – The Canadian House of Commons today debated a private member’s motion to recognize the Armenian Genocide. Motion M-380, which had its first Reading today, was moved by MP Madeleine Dalphond-Guiral’s (Laval Centre, BQ), and seconded by MPs Sarkis Assadourian (Brampton Centre, Liberal), Jason Kenney (Calgary Southeast, Conservative Party of Canada) and Alexa McDonough (Halifax, New Democratic Party).
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The Canadian House of Commons approved a motion recognizing the Québécois [the people of Quebec] as a nation within Canada, Monday night, by a margin of 266 to 16. The government motion was supported by the opposition Liberal, New Democratic and Bloc Québécois parties although 15 Liberal MPs voted against it along with Independent MP Garth Turner. Several Conservative MPs abstained from the vote including Michael Chong who resigned earlier in the day as Intergovernmental Affairs minister due to his opposition to the motion. While the dissenting Liberal MPs do not face censure by their party, Conservative backbenchers who opposed the resolution could only go as far as abstaining if they wished to remain in the Tory caucus, according to Mr. Chong.
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The Canadian House of Commons voted on Tuesday to extend marriage rights to gay and lesbian couples throughout all of Canada. When the Canadian Senate approves the measure, which is considered a formality, gay marriage will be legal in all parts of Canada. Up until now gay couples could get married in most of Canada, but not Alberta, Prince Edward Island and the Northwest Territories. Where else can gays and lesbians get married? Here is a list of the places gays and lesbians can get married or form civil unions.
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In a 158 to 133 vote of the House of Commons held Tuesday night, Canadian MPs have approved the legalization of same-sex weddings in Canada. Assuming the Senate passes Bill C-38 and the Governor General gives royal assent, Canada will become the fourth country in the world to legalize same-sex weddings after the Netherlands, Belgium and Spain. The bill presented to the House of Commons by the Liberal government of Prime Minister Paul Martin has passed mainly because of support by the left-wing New Democratic Party of Jack Layton and the support of the separatist Bloc Québécois, which enabled it to overcome the staunch opposition of the Conservative Party.
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In an emergency House of Commons debate surounding Canada's role in Haiti yesterday, The Canadian government trotted out its new foreign policy language, coloured by a great deal of Bush-speak that Canadians and Americans have come to know so well. Evidently, the foreign policy medicine of "deep integration" with the United States has an immediate side effect of groundless, unsubstantiatable claims and much empty rhetoric.
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The Prime Minister of Canada, the head of the Canadian government, is the leader of the political party with the most seats in the Canadian House of Commons. The Prime Minister has the right to the style of Right Honourable. The current prime minister is the Rt. Hon. Paul Martin
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