Mr. Speaker, yesterday was International Women's Day and while we celebrated gains that have been made, there is still much work left to do.
There is work to eradicate barriers to women's full economic, social and political participation in our society; work to enact pay equity legislation and affordable national universal child care programs, as well as affordable housing; work to address violence against women and reject all restrictions on women's reproductive rights; work to improve the lives of indigenous women and girls by enacting all the calls for justice; and work to address the specific challenges faced by women of colour, and members of the LGBTQI2S+ and the disability communities.
That is certainly a long list, but all women deserve to be valued and to enjoy equity, affordability, equality of opportunity and the freedom to live without fear.
We can never stop working towards that, and we never will.