I thank Mrs. Atwin for her participation in the first-ever virtual clause-by-clause, as we muddle our way through it in this Parliament.
I think these are important suggestions being made by the Green Party through Mrs. Atwin. I would reiterate that, from my perspective and that of many of my Liberal colleagues, we are very keen on ensuring that the language that talks about social context covers off and clarifies what social context is meant to include. From our perspective, that is systemic racism and systemic discrimination.
There are other Liberal amendments that follow this that refer to those concepts with exactly that language. That was very deliberate in terms of drafting. It was meant to be as encompassing as possible without going down the path of enumerating certain concepts, classes, groups or demographics, which could open us up to the possibility of having unwittingly or inadvertently excluded some. Rather than enumerate specific categories, we elected to—through some drafting creativity—entrench concepts such as systemic racism and systemic discrimination, which would, hopefully, be large enough to encompass many of the things that have been proposed by many parliamentarians, including Mrs. Atwin.
On that basis, my support would be in favour of LIB-2 rather than in favour of PV-1, so I will be voting against PV-1.
Thank you very much for the floor.
Thank you, Mrs. Atwin, for this helpful suggestion.