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	MP's Marijuana Motion Gathering Steam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Bigras is now sponsoring a motion in the House of Commons asking the government to study the benefits of marijuana in treating the symptoms of some illnesses.
		Bigras is suggesting that Health Canada conduct a three-year research program involving 400 to 600 patients before considering legalizing the substance.
		Bigras said in an interview yesterday that he is aware that he is raising a controvertial issue.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v99.n184.a07.html/canada (176 words)

	Bloc MP fights television violence
		Bloc Quebecois MP Bernard Bigras says there's too much violence on television when children under 12 are watching, and he wants Canada's broadcast regulator to do something about it.
		Bigras, the member of Parliament for Rosemount, tabled a private member's bill Wednesday calling for changes to the Broadcast Act.
		Bigras says the violence guidelines set up in 1993 by the CRTC and the Broadcast Standards Council are fine; the problem lies in enforcement.
	www.cbc.ca /canada/story/2000/04/06/tvviolence000406.html (1130 words)

	Bernard Bigras Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Bernard Bigras (born June 4, 1969, in Montreal, Quebec) is a Canadian politician.
		Bigras is a Bloc Québécois member of the Canadian House of Commons.
		Bigras is a former economist and political adviser.
	www.bookrags.com /Bernard_Bigras (75 words)

	UWO Gazette - Volume 92, Issue 80 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The motion was sponsored by Bloc Quebecois member of parliament Bernard Bigras who has been supporting the issue since it was brought to his attention by a constituent last spring.
		Bigras is pushing for Health Canada to conduct a three-year research program involving 400 to 600 patients who would smoke marijuana to see if the drug relieves their symptoms.
		Bigras' compassion is in the right direction, but we need to isolate the effective ingredient in order to give it in the least harmful way," Hill added.
	www.gazette.uwo.ca /1999/february/18/News7.htm (415 words)

	Canada's House Declares Support For Medical Marijuana - NORML
		MP Bernard Bigras (Bloc Quebecois-Rosemont), who sponsored the bill, said that its passage "ensure[s] that the government keeps its word on this question." Bigras has repeatedly criticized Rock for his failure to follow through on promises to introduce regulations allowing patients legal access to medical marijuana.
		Bigras' motion originally proposed the government to undertake "all necessary steps to legalize the use of marijuana for health and medical purposes." Bloc Party members opposed amending it, but eventually voted for the watered down version to put the House on record in support of medical marijuana.
		Bigras emphasized that he still favors making medical marijuana available to some patients before the completion of new clinical trials.
	www.norml.org /index.cfm?Group_ID=3996&wtm_format=print (397 words)

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		Finger pointing is nothing new in the House of Commons, but Immigration Minister Denis Coderre is demanding an apology after an Opposition Bloc Quebecois MP flashed his middle digit in the minister's direction.
		Bernard Bigras gave a one-finger salute to Coderre during a heated debate Wednesday on a Bloc motion asking Parliament to recognize Quebec as a nation.
		While Bigras put up several fingers, his middle one was most prominent in what looked like the obscene gesture most often used by disgruntled drivers.
	www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/scfcn/CTVNews/20031030/one_finger_salute_031030/Canada (199 words)

	Bernard Bigras - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Bigras is a Bloc Québécois member of the Canadian House of Commons.
		How'd They Vote?: Bernard Bigras' voting history and quotes
		Members of the Canadian House of Commons from Quebec
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Bernard_Bigras (111 words)

	Edited Evidence * ENVI * Number 011 (Official Version) - Committees of the House of Commons (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Bigras, the vote was on the decision, not on the chair; that's how I interpreted it.
		Bigras, I'd be glad to talk to you after.
		Bigras, I think you've stated your opinion; it is an opinion and we've all heard it.
	cmte.parl.gc.ca /cmte/committeepublication.aspx?sourceid=172662 (9158 words)

	Decriminalize Therapeutic Marijuana Now, MP Says (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		The bill is expected to be debated in June and Bigras is on a national tour to raise the issue.
		Bigras was to meet today with Vancouver's Compassion Club, which in recent years has been discreetly supplying marijuana for free or at reduced rates to sick people in the Lower Mainland.
		Bigras said many MPs are still resistant to the notion of legalizing marijuana for any purpose.
	www.mapinc.org /drugnews/v99.n443.a02.html (462 words)

	Hemp.Net : News : MP Challenges Rock Pot Move
		Bigras said he doubts the sincerity of Rock's announcement Wednesday that he'll launch clinical tests of medical marijuana.
		Bigras said if Rock honestly plans to move forward with the tests, he has to support the Bloc motion when it comes to a vote in June.
		Bigras has Tory and NDP support, and now will send out 10,000 postcards to get support from Canadians.
	www.hemp.net /news/9903/09/mp_challlenges_rock.html (209 words)

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		The coalition, led by Bernard Bigras, the Bloc Quebecois member of Parliament for Rosemont-Petite Patrie, has grown to 67 organizations from only 10 groups when it was launched in Ottawa on March 7.
		Bigras said recent polls show 82 per cent of Quebecers and 78 per cent of Canadians support Canada's ratification of the protocol, which would legally bind signatories to reducing their greenhouse-gas emissions, which have been blamed for global warming.
		Bigras quoted a study made public last week by the Boston-based Tellus Institute that predicted Canada's economy would benefit from implementing policies to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions.
	climateark.org /shared/reader/welcome.aspx?linkid=10559 (557 words)

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		Reaction from opposition members was mostly positive, although Reform MP Grant Hill, a medical doctor, warned of risks if the testing was seen as a first step down the road to legalizing the drug for general use.
		Bloc Quebecois MP Bernard Bigras introduced a motion in Parliament on 4 March urging the government to take every step toward legalizing medical marijuana.
		Bigras said he doubts the sincerity of Rock's announcement that he'll launch clinical tests of medical marijuana.
	www.medicalcannabis.it /mainpage.php?do=archivio/teranews9.htm (253 words)

	Legal medical pot in Canada? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		MP Bernard Bigras agrees with Young that Rock's consessions to the medical marijuana movement are only delay tactics.
		Bigras is scornful toward laws that make the drug war possible, calling for immediate change, not the long, drawn-out clinical trials proposed by the Minister of Health.
		Bigras' watered-down motion has become nothing more than a simple affirmation that the Ministry of Health will continue with clinical trials, and with the compassionate distribution of marijuana to medical users, by the end of June.
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/1475.html (3221 words)

	pq-Rosemont-La Petite-Patrie
		This is a poor, urban riding, high unemployment or not in the labor force %-age of people, rather low number of people with university diplom too, this area is represented provincially by PQ's Rita Dionne-Marsolais but she struggled in the recent election against a PLQ candidate.
		Bernard Bigras certainly does not have Rita's popularity nor her likeability.
		Bernard Bigras is well known in this riding and will not have any problems winning Rosemont-Pëtite-Patrie.
	www.electionprediction.org /2004_fed/riding/24061-rosemont-la-petite-patrie.htm (329 words)

	Bernard Bigras -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Bernard Bigras -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article
		Bernard Bigras (born June 4, 1969, in (Click link for more info and facts about Montreal, Quebec) Montreal, Quebec) is a (A river rising in northeastern New Mexico and flowing eastward across the Texas panhandle to become a tributary of the Arkansas River in Oklahoma) Canadian politician.
		Bigras is a (Click link for more info and facts about Bloc Québécois) Bloc Québécois member of the (Click link for more info and facts about Canadian House of Commons) Canadian House of Commons.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/B/Be/Bernard_Bigras.htm (185 words)

	The Front: November 9, 2000
		His call is aimed in particular at Rosemont MP, Bernard Bigras.
		Bigras was the first elected member to speak up in the House of Commons, condemning Health Minister Alan Rock's slow response towards legalization.
		St-Maurice, federal candidate for the Laurier-Ste-Marie riding, and Alexandre Néron, Hochelaga-Maisonneuve candidate, were charged with possession of 66 grams for the purposes of trafficking, after MUC Police raided the Montreal club last February.
	www.montrealmirror.com /ARCHIVES/2000/110900/news1.html (250 words)

	National Citizens Coalition: NCC News & Media
		Liberal and Bloc Quebecois environment critics, John Godfrey and Bernard Bigras, also joined Bechard and the environmental groups, urging the government to recommit to the Kyoto targets.
		NDP critic Nathan Cullen is expected at the UN meeting today, but was unable to attend the news conference because of a scheduling problem.
		Meantime, Bigras handed out to delegates from other countries copies of a letter he wrote, on the House of Commons letterhead, that denounced the Harper government and highlighted the majority support among Canadian MPs for the Kyoto protocol.
	nationalcitizens.ca /cgi-bin/news.cgi?rm=display&articleID=1163514519 (793 words)

	Marijuana Health Test Backed (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Health Minister Allan Rock made the surprise announcement in the House of Commons yesterday, a day before Bloc Québécois MP Bernard Bigras was to introduce a private member's motion on the same matter.
		According to some estimates, 20,000 or more Canadians would be likely to apply to smoke marijuana to ease the pain and symptoms of such debilitating diseases as glaucoma, multiple sclerosis, cancer, epilepsy, AIDS or arthritis.
		Pariseau applauded the move yesterday, but said it was Bigras who spurred the govern ment into action.
	www.friendlystranger.com /info/medicinal/marijuanahealthtestbacked.htm (625 words)

	Clinical cannabis in Canada? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Despite Rock's announcement, Bigras introduced a motion on March 4 that the government would officially continue doing everything it could to legalize medical marijuana.
		Bigras has challenged Rock to vote in favour of the motion when it comes to a vote in June.
		With both the Tories and NDP on his side, Bigras plans to send out 10,000 postcards to rally support from Canadians.
	www.cannabisculture.com /articles/1438.html (845 words)

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	www.brainyencyclopedia.com /topics/quebec.html (5020 words)

	Medbroadcast Health News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Dosanjh rejected demands by Bloc Quebecois MP Bernard Bigras that the corn known as Mon863 be withdrawn in the light of data showing that it produced adverse health effects in rats.
		Bigras was referring to Monsanto data obtained by Greenpeace after a court battle in Germany.
		The data show statistically significant differences in the organs and blood of rats fed Mon863 compared with rats fed conventional corn.
	medbroadcast.com /health_news_details_pf.asp?news_id=7144&... (315 words)

	NORML News - March 5, 1999
		Bigras testified that the Canadian AIDS Society, the Canadian Hemophilia Society, and several prominent doctors "unambiguously" favor legalizing medical marijuana.
		Their answer [is] always: they [are] open to the issue, their officials [are] studying it, and they hope to be able to announce a plan or something more specific in a few months, all the while hoping that the issue would go away."
		Bigras said that Rock has ignored requests from seriously ill patients who have applied to receive medical marijuana under the Health Canada special access program.
	mojo.calyx.net /~olsen/NORML/WEEKLY/99-03-05.html (1099 words)

	Information on Bill C-327 Reduction of TV Violence
		Statement from Bloc MP, Bernard Bigras, 2000, re his previous Bill on television violence
		The draft for Bill C-327, introduced by Bloc Quebecois member of parliament Bernard Bigras, draws a direct link between TV violence and violence in society.
		Accordingly, the parliamentary bill calls for amendments to the federal Broadcasting Act that would introduce first-time regulations on domestic broadcasters to curb TV violence, especially for TV shows aimed at children under 12 years of age.
	www.fradical.com /Bill_C_327_Reduction_in_tv_violence.htm (329 words)

	Portland NORML News - Friday, March 5, 1999
		------------------------------------------------------------------- MP Challenges Rock Pot Move (According to the London Free Press, in Ontario, Bernard Bigras, a Bloc Quebecois member of Parliament, accused Health Minister Allan Rock yesterday of plotting to derail his Commons motion to legalize marijuana for medical purposes.
		Canada's House of Commons Debates Medical Marijuana The Canadian Foundation for Drug Policy reported on March 3, 1999, that Canada's House of Commons would begin a debate on legalization of medical marijuana on Thursday, March 4, at 5:30pm, focusing on a motion by MP Bernard Bigras.
		Bigras (Rosemont) - "That, in the opinion of this House, the government should undertake all necessary steps to legalize the use of marijuana for health and medical purposes." The debate on the motion is limited to three hours.
	www.pdxnorml.org /ii/990305.html (12339 words)

	TRCA - Latest News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Goodale told the House environment committee that he is considering the idea as the government tries to implement the Kyoto agreement on climate change.
		In a related development, the Bloc Québécois environment critic, Bernard Bigras, said Albertans should pay more than Quebeckers for environmental cleanup because the western province is a major oil producer, and oil products are responsible for a great deal of pollution.
		Responding in the Commons, Environment Minister Stéphane Dion said the Bloc had better be careful with its "territorial" approach to the Kyoto issue.
	www.trca.on.ca /latestnews?articleID=639 (614 words)

	MP Borys Wrzesnewskyj leads parliamentary delegation to Ukraine (12/05/04) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		He also spearheaded the unanimously accepted House of Commons motion of October 26, the emergency debate of November 24, and the motion of November 25.
		Wrzesnewskyj on the all-party parliamentary delegation are Conservative MP Peter Goldring, Bloc Quebecois MP Bernard Bigras, and New Democratic Party MP Judy Wasylycia-Leis.
		The House of Commons motion of November 25 underscroed that "a concerted, systemic and massive fraud has been committed by the current regime and the Central Electoral Commission of Ukraine against the will of the people of Ukraine; the electoral commission does not have a legitimate basis for declaring Mr.
	www.ukrweekly.com /Archive/2004/490408.shtml (328 words)

	CBC - Canada Votes 2006 - Candidates and Ridings (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In 1996, 72 per cent of Rosemont was combined with 26 per cent of Hochelaga-Maissoneuve, 17 per cent of St-Denis and five per cent of Papineau-St-Michel.
		In 2004, Bloc Québécois MP Bernard Bigras captured 60 per cent of the vote to defeat Liberal Christian Bolduc and win a third term.
		In the former Rosemont riding, Liberal Claude-André Lachance, incumbent from Lafontaine, won in 1979 and 1980.
	www.cbc.ca /canadavotes/riding/093 (826 words)

	Human Resources Development Canada asks for investigation of TJF project in Rosemont, Quebec (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		In December 1997, HRDC approved a project under the Transitional Jobs Fund for $165,984 to create 42 jobs in the riding of Rosemont.
		Prior to approval, the local HRDC office consulted the relevant community partners, including the local MP, Bernard Bigras.
		The former Quebec Employment Minister, Louise Harel, also supported this project in a letter signed on December 15, 1997.
	www.hrsdc.gc.ca /en/cs/comm/news/2000/000225a_e.shtml (214 words)

	cannabisnews.com: House Of Commons Holds First Ever Debate! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-05)
		Bigras testified that the Canadian AIDS Society, the Canadian Hemophilia Society, and several prominent doctors "unambiguously" favor legalizing medical marijuana.
		Their answer [is] always: they [are] open to the issue, their officials [are] studying it, and they hope to be able to announce a plan or something more specific in a few months, all the while hoping that the issue would go away."
		Bigras said that Rock has ignored requests from seriously ill patients who have applied to receive medical marijuana under the Health Canada special access program.
	www.cisum.com /news/thread736.shtml (517 words)

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