She is Minister of Labour now? Congratulations.
I see that the Minister of Labour agrees with me, and I am convinced that we cannot forgo this debate.
I will give an example. A little under two years ago, the Public Service Alliance of Canada actively supported two individuals who filed suits before various common law courts. The result was the Rosenberg decision. This is without a doubt one of the most important decisions for equality rights, because it ruled that various provisions of the Income Tax Act were invalid and unconstitutional, but not all the provisions concerning spouses. It could have gone further, but it ruled that paragraph 4 of section 252 was unconstitutional because it did not recognize the right to a survivor's pension for workers in that union. This is a tremendous step forward legally, but it was a step that parliamentarians should have taken.
My time is about to run out. I will save my conclusions for the end of the debate. I will wrap up for now by calling all parliamentarians to justice, to courage and to convictions, and urge them to allow a real debate, a real vote for the right to equality, the recognition of same-sex couples.