Madam Chair, I don't see how this amendment is contrary to the main motion. We're not changing the fact that women have equality in the Charter of Rights. All we're doing is highlighting the fact that, in order to actualize or to make those rights a reality in the everyday life of women, Status of Women Canada needs to have the equality aspect spelled out as a mandate. Otherwise, if its primary mandate is not to ensure that the equality of women is in fact actualized, then it won't happen.
We're not saying no to the equality of rights in the charter. We're saying the mandate of the department needs to ensure that those equality rights are in fact implemented through the same sort of system, except that we've added a couple of things to the list that the government has.