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	"The free trade agenda is destroying the human family and the environment," Anglican Bishop Sue Moxley of Nova Scotia tells a public meeting at the National Press Club in Ottawa April 13. Moxley was a member of a church delegation sponsored by KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, that visited Mexico in March to study the effects of NAFTA.
	Anglican Bishop Sue Moxley of Nova Scotia spoke at a public meeting at the National Press Club in Ottawa April 13. Moxley was a member of a church delegation sponsored by KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, that visited Mexico in March to study the effects of NAFTA.
	Ana Maria Alvarado Garcia, a Mexican community activist, speaks about resistance to a Canadian gold-mining project in Mexico at a public meeting at the National Press Club in Ottawa April 13 during the Global Week of Action on Trade.
	National Lutheran Bishop Ray Schultz says Chapter 11 of NAFTA "places corporate gains and rights before human rights." Schultz was a member of a church delegation sponsored by KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, that visited Mexico in March to study the effects of NAFTA.The group was in Ottawa April 13 to deliver its findings to government officials and urge them to "consider the human face of NAFTA's failures."
	Rev. Mark Lewis, former moderator of the Presbyterian Church in Canada, was a member of a church delegation sponsored by KAIROS: Canadian Ecumenical Justice Initiatives, that visited Mexico in March to study the effects of NAFTA. The group was in Ottawa April 13 to deliver its findings to government officials and urge them to "consider the human face of NAFTA's failures."

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	"Homosexuality is a private reality and it cannot become the foundation for social relationships," Catholic Archbishop Marcel Gervais of Ottawa told thousands of people at the March for Marriage rally on Parliament Hill April 9."Our government wants sodomy to become part of the norm and we refuse that."
	"We are committed to upholding in law the traditional definition of marriage as the union of one man and one woman," Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper said at the March for Marriage rally on Parliament Hill April 9. "Fully 95 of our 99 members of Parliament support traditional marriage," he added.
	Evangelist David Mainse appealed to participants at the March for Marriage rally on Parliament Hill April 9 to campaign hard against the government's plan to legalize same-sex marriage across Canada. He also quoted from the 1999 biography of Pope John Paul II, where the pope stated, "Democracies risk self-destruction if moral wrongs were to be legally defended as rights."
	"Make no mistake," Dr. Charles McVety, leader of the Defend Marriage Coalition, said at the March for Marriage rally on Parliament Hill April 9. Bill C-38 is an" anti-marriage bill" that redefines marriage into "something that it never has been, it isn't today and it never will be," he added.
	"There is at least one-third of the Liberal MPs in our caucus who share my view (against same-sex marriage)," said Ontario Liberal MP Pat O'Brien.
	Dozens of supporters of same-sex marriage took to Parliament Hill April 10 at a counter-demonstration against the March for Marriage rally attended by several thousand people.
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	Supporters of same-sex marriage dance on Parliament Hill April 10 at a counter-demonstration against the March for Marriage rally attended by several thousand people.
	Supporters of same-sex marriage included members of the First United Church in Ottawa

	Thousands of people attended the March for Marriage rally on Parliament Hill April 9 in opposition to Bill C-38, aimed at legalizing same-sex marriage across Canada.
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