Bureaucratic Decisions Give Recognition To Homosexual Relationships

Liberal Government Sympathetic to Homosexual Cause

As if the public were not already aware of the federal Liberal government's extreme sympathy for the homosexual agenda, after it arrogantly whipped through Parliament in May 1996, in only 10 days, the amendment to the federal Human Rights Act to include protection on the basis of sexual orientation, it is now pushing the agenda again by slyly promoting the gay agenda behind the scenes with its bureaucratic decisions.

Immigration

Currently, there are four classes for immigration into Canada: refugees, business, family and independent. The definition of "spouse" under the present family class category refers specifically to opposite-sex couples only.

However, in June 1994, the Department of Citizenship and Immigration changed its policy and decided to allow partners of homosexuals and lesbians into the country on "humanitarian and compassionate" grounds, notwithstanding the specific wording of the Act which defined "spouses" as members of the opposite sex.

Homosexual MP Svend Robinson

MP Svend Robinson, 45 years of age, while visiting in Cuba three years ago, met a young 25-year-old homosexual, Max Riveron, who has been variously described in newspaper reports as working as a waiter or a translator there. Upon meeting him, Mr. Robinson, according to these same newspaper reports, immediately invited Mr. Riverton up to his hotel room to spend the night with him. Mr. Riveron delicately declined that first night -- but not the second night or thereafter.

Mr. Robinson subsequently brought his sexual partner into Canada under the "compassionate and humanitarian" provisions of the Immigration Department.

Mr. Robinson stated in the homosexual newspaper, Capital Xtra, Dec. 12, 1997:

At the beginning of the New Year, with the love of my life, my partner Max who moved here from Cuba, I reflect on how privileged we are to be able to share our lives together. My wish for 1998 is that all gay and lesbian people in Canada who fall in love with a foreigner should be able to sponsor their partners for landed immigrant status in exactly the same manner as heterosexual people can. Justice and humanity demands (sic) no less.

Capital Xtra columnist, David Pepper, stated in the Nov. 14, 1997 issue:

... One of the most pressing federal issues [is] continued blatant and unconscionable discrimination against lesbian and gay immigrants and partners ...

In this regard, the two "out-of-the-closet" homosexual MPs, NDP Svend Robinson (Burnaby - Douglas, BC) and BQ Réal Ménard (Hochelaga - Maisonneuve) have carefully positioned themselves on House of Commons Committees which deal with Immigration issues. Mr. Ménard is a member of the House of Commons Committee on Citizenship and Immigration and MP Svend Robinson is a member of the House of Commons Committee on Foreign Affairs.

According to Capital Xtra columnist, Pepper (November 14, 1997 issue):

...If Ménard is to be judged by his performance in the last Parliament, there will be a significant impression made upon this issue.

...there will undoubtedly be attention paid to international lesbian and gay issues with the NDP's gay foreign affairs critic Svend Robinson sitting as a full committee member for the first time in four years.

Travel Allowances for Homosexual Partners

The House of Commons Board of Internal Economy headed by Speaker, Gilbert Parent (Niagara Centre, Ontario), whose committee operates in secret, quietly substituted in November 28, 1997 the word "spouse" for "travel partner" in the policy that allows spouses of MPs to travel free to and from Ottawa. MPs may use or allocate their designated travellers up to 64 free return airline tickets each year. Kingston Liberal MP, Peter Milliken, Deputy Commons Speaker who chaired the Board of Internal Economy Sub-committee that came up with this change, admitted in the Ottawa Citizen (December 6, 1997), that the new definition was specifically to accommodate same-sex partners, but that it could also apply to others. The opening was quickly taken advantage of by Speaker, Gilbert Parent, who has a new partner, after leaving his wife of 39 years, and NDP leader, Alexa McDonough who has registered her new live-in partner, former PC MP, David McDonald, for the free travel perk. Of course, Svend Robinson has registered his partner, Riveron, with the Board of Internal Economy under the amended policy and he now travels across Canada at tax payers expense, too.

Please write to the following members of the Board of Internal Economy objecting to this change in policy:

Other members of the Board, in case they include your MP are as follows:

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