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MP Bill Siksay to Retire Before Next Election

Started by Shana A, December 17, 2010, 10:00:44 AM

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MP Bill Siksay to Retire Before Next Election
Filed by dentedbluemercedes
December 17, 2010

http://dentedbluemercedes.wordpress.com/2010/12/17/mp-bill-siksay-to-retire-before-next-election/

Bill Siksay, Member of Parliament for Burnaby-Douglas, has announced that he will not be running again, in the next election:

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And I will continue to work on the issues of the day.

The issues of the day include Bill C-389, which proposes to add gender identity and gender expression to the Canada Human Rights Act and the hate crimes clause of the Criminal Code of Canada.  He adds a separate note to trans people:

    This does not mean that I am abandoning Bill C389 and the struggle for full and explicit human rights for transsexual and transgender Canadians. I will continue to work hard to get the Bill through the House and off to the Senate before an election.
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde


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