Madam Chair, I have the floor.
I'm speaking to the motion to adjourn with the conditions. I will support the conditions, because I believe that we need to do good work in this committee, but I am very disappointed that this isn't something that this committee would have unanimously supported. We have had these rights as women for a generation, and I'm very offended that this is being considered.
This term “virtue signalling”.... I'm sorry, but if standing up for women's rights is virtue signalling, then, absolutely, I will do that every day.
I will support that motion, because I know we have a lot of good work in this committee, but I would like it to be on the record that this should not have been something that we're still debating. Worse yet, yesterday, we had members out on the lawn of Parliament. There were members of Parliament who were trying to take away women's rights to choose. I'm very disappointed and I wish that it wasn't the case that we still had to battle this in this day and age.
Thank you.