Mr. Speaker, Canada took to the Beijing +5 United Nations conference an extensive list of issues that we felt would not only benefit Canada, but specifically women of the developing world; issues like how the diversity of ethnicity and race and poverty cause trafficking in women and children, cause forced marriages for girls of eight years old and cause the buying and selling of women and children in the world. We brought issues to the table like armed conflict and land mines, concerns about the fact that HIV and AIDS are decimating women and villages around the world. Those are the issues Canada brought to the conference.
In the House of Commons on June 13th, 2000. See this statement in context.