Mr. Speaker, today is a great day for women. Kelly Lesiuk from Winnipeg won her EI charter challenge and achieved a wonderful victory for women and part time workers.
Justice Salhany has just found that the EI program, which requires workers to accumulate 700 hours of employment to qualify for benefits, is unconstitutional and demeans the essential human dignity of women.
My question is for the minister responsible for the status of women. Will she promise Canadian women that she will fight to translate this decision into law and—