Certainly, Madam Chair.
Last Sunday, the 2010 World March of Women ended in Rimouski, with more than 10,000 people marching to commemorate the 1995 march in Beijing. The march reminds us that women have not yet achieved equity, nor the things we set out to achieve in 1995 when we held the “bread and roses” march.
It is important to point out that we still have to march for our goals in 2010. The fact that women have once again showed themselves to be strong enough to take this action and that they still want to become involved, to march, to motivate and to mobilize is justification enough for us—and for Parliament as a whole—to congratulate them, to encourage them to continue to be active in this way and to recommend that their demands also be supported by Parliament. Those demands have already been embraced by several other women's groups. I feel that we support them as well.