Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his speech.
I invite my colleagues who have concerns about this bill and who find parts of it to be vague to accept it and have confidence in the work that will be done by committees. We believe that the bill is quite clear. It prohibits causing a person to undergo conversion therapy against the person’s will, causing a child to undergo conversion therapy, removing a child from Canada with the intention that the child undergo conversion therapy outside Canada, advertising an offer to provide conversion therapy, and receiving a financial or other material benefit from the provision of conversion therapy. This seems sufficiently clear to me.
I would like the member to comment on this. He seems to agree with the substance of the issue, that is, the importance of banning this type of practice.
Why does he believe it is important to legalize this?