Mon Jan 3, 2022 – 9:56 am EST
(LifeSiteNews) — Canadian Conservative MP Rob Moore made a motion in the House of Commons seeking unanimous consent to pass Bill C-4, to create the criminal offense of conversion therapy. He read his motion twice on December 1, 2021. Speaker of the House Anthony Rota twice gave the opportunity for any MP in the House to say “nay” to defeat the motion. Not one MP objected.
The motion carried on a unanimous basis. On December 8, 2021, Bill C-4 became law. It was strange that in the last Parliament before the election, an earlier weaker version of this same bill was opposed by 62 Conservative MPs. Why did this opposition collapse?
Conversion therapy is defined to include a practice, treatment or service designed to change a person’s sexual orientation, such as transgender, to heterosexual or designed to change a person’s gender expression so that it conforms to their DNA and the biological sex that person has.
Our population is about 96% heterosexual. Most people assume that being male or female is to be preferred over any gender self-identification that is not based on biology. The new criminal law
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