Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you, Mr. Speaker, for appearing today.
I'll reference a point that Ms. Rempel Garner brought forward with the previous panel. It's important for us to not use this really important study to play partisan games.
I'm glad to see you here within your role as the Speaker of this institution and have you give us advice as you see things from your experience.
I want to get to some of the things that you said, because they concern me. There is this idea that we are all surrounded by those long-standing traditions, which you talked about, and the history. We have an incredible responsibility to uphold them to some degree, but also to represent the people who sent us here, of whom I am so incredibly proud all the time, and make the changes needed to help them make their lives better. Those changes and this institution then have to evolve with the society we represent.
As an institution that is patriarchal and colonial and that has seen some dark times, as our society has, how do we ensure that we are doing both? How do we find that balance?
This conversation about harassment hinges on that, I think. It is about respect. It is about understanding that we are all truly equal.
How do we balance that?