Mr. Speaker, I cannot get over all the studies we have to do in the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, studies that remind us that there are real risks of losing ground. In fact, it is already happening. Masculinism is clawing back the rights women acquired thanks to those feminists who paved the way for today's women through decades of struggle. Now we see that, because of misogyny and the rise of masculinism online, women's rights are being eroded. At committee, many witnesses have come to tell us how important it is to control what can be said online and how far hate speech like this can go. This is not just a religious issue. It is an issue of hate speech undermining women's rights.
It is ridiculous, because it was uncomfortable for the Standing Committee on Foreign Affairs and International Development to realize that, in the end, the only witnesses who spoke against abortion were doing so based on religious principles, with no science to back their remarks. In fact, it has been scientifically proven that, when laws are enacted to limit abortion solely on the basis of religious principle, women end up dying. There are not fewer abortions, just more unsafe ones.