Thank you, Mr. Chair, and I want to thank all of the witnesses for being here today and for sharing this important information with us.
This has been something that has been incredibly difficult to watch happen in Afghanistan. We are at 501 days since education was taken away from women and girls in Afghanistan. We know the results of what happened last time when the Taliban took education away for six years from women and girls in Afghanistan. I want to tell you all that I will do everything I can as a member of Parliament to do what I can to help the women of Afghanistan. That can't be allowed to happen again.
On January 15, I woke up and found out that the Afghanistan member of parliament that Alexis Brunelle-Duceppe and I, with others from other parties, had been trying to bring to Canada had been murdered. It was probably one of the worst days of my career as a parliamentarian.
What I want to talk about right now is the education piece, I guess.
It's very clear that Canada must change its anti-terrorism laws. We have had the anti-terrorism laws, which the government has said it will change, but it has been months and months, and nothing has happened. I'll continue to push the government on that.
However, in terms of education, in terms of ways that we can support women and girls, I am going to ask my colleague from Canadian Women for Women in Afghanistan to talk a bit about the implications for women. What are the implications not just in women and girls not having access to education but in what the Taliban is doing in Afghanistan with regard to the curriculum? What is happening to the other pieces of the education system that are being irrevocably damaged at the moment in Afghanistan?