moved for leave to introduce Bill C-309, An Act to establish Gender Equality Week.
Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise today to introduce my private member's bill, an act to establish gender equality week. The bill aims to establish the first week of October every year as gender equality week.
After consulting with stakeholders, constituents of my riding of Mississauga—Lakeshore, and groups across the country, my team and I developed an additional opportunity to address the challenges Canadian women and individuals of minority gender identity and expression continue to face, and significantly, to underscore the role men need to play to establish a gender-equal society in Canada.
I look forward to elaborating on these points in later debate with my colleagues in the House.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)