TORONTO - The Liberal government's proposal to scrap the reading of the Lord's Prayer in the legislature has garnered 5,700 submissions and counting.
Speaker Steve Peters, who is heading up a committee to examine replacing the Lord's Prayer with another reading, says thousands are giving their opinion on the divisive debate through the legislature's website.
The traffic was so great when the committee first set up the online form that it temporarily crashed the website, prompting hundreds of calls to Peters' office.
New Democrat Cheri DiNovo says there wasn't a groundswell of people clamouring to talk about the Lord's Prayer before the Liberals raised the issue in February.
Conservative Garfield Dunlop says the majority of people are writing in to save the Lord's Prayer.
He says the reading is inclusive enough to cover many different beliefs.
