Mr. Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague and friend for his caring and for his speech tonight.
On Sunday, one of the more than fifty teenagers who escaped from Boko Haram said the kidnapping was “too terrifying for words”. She said that more of the girls could have escaped, but they were frightened by their captors' threats to shoot them. She also said, “Now I cry each time I come across their parents and see how they weep when they see me”.
The teenager said that the thought of going back to school, as my colleague pointed out, either the burned out ruins of her own school or any other school, was terrifying.
What does my hon. colleague think Canada should do to help protect children from violence, restore faith in Nigeria's local security system, and protect the rights of girls to education?