Mr. Speaker, a few days ago, Treasury Board made a major move to recognize same sex spouses.
By relaxing the interpretation of its collective agreements, Treasury Board granted six benefits to employees living with a same sex spouse.
These benefits include bereavement leave, family leave, leave for the relocation of the spouse, as well as the reimbursement of travel and moving expenses of the spouse of a diplomat posted abroad.
These provisions apply to 200,000 federal public servants. The logical thing to do for the government would now be to grant same sex spouses the other benefits to which are entitled all federal public servants.