Mr. Speaker, on December 20, 2000, the current finance minister wrote in a letter:
Federal hate crimes legislation offers protection only on the basis of race, religion and ethnicity. This...would make it difficult to proceed with a prosecution for alleged hate crime relating to gender....
It is time for the federal government to provide such tools to prosecute those promoting hatred against women.
Why have the Conservatives vetoed the efforts to add sex to hate crimes legislation, not once, not twice, but three times?