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Senate: The proposed legislation appeared poised to pass the Senate but did not make it to a final vote before the summer recess began last week, according to The Star. The Senate should have passed this, and its disappointing that the transgender community is going to have to wait months again now unnecessarily for them to do this, but I still expect them to pass the bill, said the bills sponsor, New Democrat MP Randall Garrison and OTTAWA An eight-year bid to include transgender rights in Canadian anti-discrimination and hate laws is likely to suffer another legislative setback, despite support from a majority in both chambers of Parliament. If Prime Minister Stephen Harper prorogues Parliament to deliver a new Speech from the Throne as expected in the fall, the bill will get rolled back to first-reading in the Senate again. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.