Mr. Chair, as far as the UN's CDOC recommendation is concerned, we have decided to link with the international community in order to ensure, first of all, that it is a collective effort, and second that we can—again collectively—address problems of specific concern to us, that is violence and cruelty toward women.
We have made national and international commitments, and we are going to make every effort to respect them, given the challenges associated with the Canadian reality, as well as its diversity—