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Article: Right to petition the National Assembly, President Jean-Pierre Charbonneau, February 1, 2001.
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- Canadian Parliamentary Review
- Article date:
- September 22, 2001
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Background: On three occasions in recent months, the matter of the exercise of the right to petition the National Assembly has been brought before the Assembly. The President identified four questions, all of which concern the impact of the codification of the right to petition in the Quebec Charter of human rights and freedoms on the procedure to be followed in exercising that right in the context of parliamentary debate. (Section 21 of the Charter provides that every person has a right to petition the National Assembly for the redress of grievances.)
The first question is: May the President of the Assembly block the tabling of a petition which puts the conduct ...