Thank you very much, Madam Chair.
Of course, I want to express my personal thanks to the member from Victoria. We represent different communities within greater Victoria, and we've worked very closely together on issues of women and the law. As everyone in the committee knows, I took this as far as I could in the last Parliament, and I'm very pleased to see that Laurel has bene able to take it forward in this Parliament.
My question is about the fact that we've had this topic before Parliament for three years now, and we're in the second year of a minority Parliament. I'd just ask you to talk about something that I know we're both concerned about, which is the progress of this bill before there's an election.