Madam Speaker, in reference to Bill C-24 and this falsehood put forward by the government that this is about gender equity, let me quote Professor Margot Young of the University of British Columbia, who specializes in gender equality. She said this about Bill C-24:
To loosely categorize legislation that essentially isn't really about gender equity as responding to a gender equity concern is, as I said before, dangerous....
She went on to say:
Really, there's no gender substance, no equity...on the basis of gender equality, to this legislation.
I think that pretty much sums up Bill C-24 when it comes to this false notion that it has anything to do with gender equity.