I think too, as a general editorial statement, due to the fact that we are there, the fact that our country and our people and our families have paid with the blood of Canadians and we are there, we have bought the right to say, with respect to the laws, “This isn't right.” The short-sighted reaction that I've had from a few of my own constituents, “Oh, look what they're doing. Let's pull out”, is exactly the wrong thing to do, because we've already paid the price. As a consequence of our paying that price, we are now in a position to have great moral suasion, great persuasion, with respect to this, compounding the fact that we are also in a position of strengthening women in very real and practical day-to-day ways in their own lives.
On May 7th, 2009. See this statement in context.