Madam Speaker, I enjoyed listening to the member's speech. She did something interesting at the beginning where she referenced her personal religious beliefs coming from the Abrahamic tradition. We have heard a number of Liberal members reference their personal religious beliefs, but then also say that they are going to have to in some way park those beliefs.
When I think about the relationship between faith and reason, I am often drawn to think of one of Plato's dialogues called Euthyphro and I would commend it to the reading of hon. members. It discusses the question of the origin of goodness; in particular, is a thing good because it is declared so by religion, or is a thing declared good by a religion because it is intrinsically so? I think most of us would agree that religions declare things good or bad because they are so intrinsically. They do not render a thing good or bad by declaring them so.
It is one thing for the member to ignore religious convictions, but it is another to ignore the underlying realities and truths that those things express.
I want to ask the member to further comment on that dynamic. I want to ask her if she believes in the universal immutable human dignity as a reality, not just as an arbitrary confession. Does the member believe that to be a reality and will that be expressed in the vote she makes on the bill?