Trans bill sails through committee
POLITICS / Race on to make progress as election looms
Dale Smith / National / Wednesday, November 03, 2010
http://www.xtra.ca/public/National/Trans_bill_sails_through_committee-9372.aspxThe NDP private member's bill to explicitly extend human rights protections to trans Canadians sailed through the Commons justice committee in minutes on Tuesday evening. The longest delays involved procedural wrangling around misnumbered clauses.
The bill passed committee with two Conservatives dissenting, though the government has been prepared to pass it on division.
"I'm really happy," says NDP MP Bill Siksay, the bill's author. "I'm happy that finally we seem on the cusp of getting this through the House of Commons, and maybe even getting it through the Senate before the next election, and that would be a great accomplishment, and a great thing for the members of the transsexual and transgendered community."
