Mr. Speaker, on December 6 we commemorate the terrible massacre of 14 young women. Yet a culture of violence remains pervasive and even flourishes in our federal institutions. Government is at fault for physical and sexual abuse in the military, denying pay equity, and for keeping poor women poor and vulnerable.
It is time for action. On December 6 the government should call for a truce, a truce for one day when no woman is humiliated, sold, hit or killed, no woman is forced to have sex, sell sex or is killed for sex, a day when women can walk and live in peace.