Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for her speech.
The Conservatives have a knack for fixing problems that do not exist. My colleague talked about the defence of provocation, among other things.
It is laudable to prohibit honour killings, but all of the courts that have addressed this concept of defence have found that a culturally oriented concept of honour does not constitute a defence of provocation under the Criminal Code.
Apart from the marketing and propaganda angles in advance of the upcoming federal election, what is the point of introducing an amendment just for this given that the courts have already ruled that it is not a defence of provocation?