Mr. Speaker, today a young woman and recent university graduate named Annick Chenier decided to fight back against this government's relentless attack on students. Annick, with the help of the CFS, has launched a court challenge aimed at striking down discriminatory and unjustified changes to the Bankruptcy Act pushed through by the Liberals in last year's budget.
These changes force students unable to cope with debtload to wait 10 years after leaving school to file for bankruptcy. Annick, who graduated with a debtload of $63,000, has been forced to seek justice from the courts because the government refuses to do it.
Today I rise to do two things, first to applaud Annick's courage and second to call on the Minister of Human Resources Development to save Annick the pain of a lengthy court battle by doing the right thing, repealing this discriminatory change to the Bankruptcy Act. If the minister will not do it, then I urge all members of this House to support my private member's Bill C-439 which would do the job for him.