Mr. Speaker, the second petition is on sex-selective abortion.
The petitioners note that sex selection is antithetical to our commitment to equality between men and women, and that 84% of Canadians agree that it should be illegal to have an abortion simply because a family does not want a child to be a certain sex. The petitioners call on this chamber to pass a Criminal Code prohibition of sex-selective abortion.
Members of the House will have the opportunity to pass Bill C-233 to address this inequality, and I encourage all members to do exactly that.