I'll pass over to Ms. Damoff, but I just want to remark on that particular comment.
One of the reasons that I ran is that when I was working with the UN in Africa, one of the young women on my staff there told me that there was a double standard, that she had studied in Canada and she knows Canadian women have reproductive rights and when some of that funding was cut she said, “I am so ashamed, because you're saying that Canadian women have rights but we African women are not good enough to have reproductive rights.”
I'd like the minister to address that last comment made by Ms. Vecchio in that regard. Rights are rights and reproductive choice is something that is important for all women, whether they are Canadian or they are in other countries. That is something our government supports. I'd love to have the minister respond to that.