Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate my colleague from Shefford on another brilliant speech.
I cannot help but be extremely surprised and disappointed by the question asked by my colleague from Victoria, who appears to be questioning the importance the Bloc Québécois places on this inalienable right, in our view, to access to health care and to full autonomy in making decisions about one's own body. I find it almost disgusting, especially since the New Democrats themselves sabotaged House procedures regarding opposition day.
I especially want to talk about the secularism issue my colleague from Shefford addressed in her speech. I am extremely concerned by the House's rejection yesterday of the motion I tried to introduce to recognize the importance of repealing the religious exemption in the Criminal Code that allows people, on the pretext of religious conviction, to engage in violent speech, calls to death and calls for the annihilation of entire peoples.
I also see a rise in masculinism, a rise in right-wing populism and a trend to return to so-called traditional values, values that disrupt the principle of absolute equality between men and women. This worries me tremendously, and I think it also represents a step backward in terms of women's rights.
I would like my colleague, who sits on the Standing Committee on the Status of Women, to share with us the concerns of women in general with regard to the potential erosion of their rights and gains, acquired after decades of struggle by the feminist movement in Quebec and Canada.