Business Of The House  Madam Speaker, I rise on a point of order. An agreement could not be reached under the provisions of Standing Orders 78(1) or 78(2) with respect to the committee stage of Bill C-33, an act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act. Under the provisions of Standing Order 78(3), I gi

Canadian Human Rights Act  Mr. Speaker, I am dividing my time with the member for Ottawa West. I rise with pleasure and pride to speak to Bill C-33, an act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act to add sexual orientation as a prohibited grounds of discrimination. I congratulate the Minister of Justice and

Racism  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for this question because the incident to which the hon. member refers has created extremely deep wounds in the visible minority community of the country, wounds that no apology could erase for a very long time. This country has been based on

Supply  Mr. Speaker, we are recommending substituting for the word "genocide" the words "tragedy which claimed some 1.5 million lives". Genocide is a specific term. We do not feel we can use that term at this time. We are mentioning the deaths of 1.5 million people. We are supporting the

Supply  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has said very clearly that Canada has given aid and brought its own particular principles to areas like Rwanda, Bosnia and other parts of the world where there has been inhumanity to man. We are supportive of the hon. member's motion. We are just cha

Supply  Mr. Speaker, I rise today to thank the member for Ahuntsic for tabling this motion in the House. The points raised by the motion deal with universal rights, equality, and the fight for freedom the underprivileged peoples of the world have been waging since the dawn of civilizati

Racism  Mr. Speaker, I want the hon. member to know how much I am concerned with that finding by B'nai Brith. I share her concerns on this issue. There are a number of things my department is doing with regard to this issue. March 21 is the day United Nations has set for the elimination

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I am delighted to respond to my hon. colleague's questions. My colleague has forgotten some things and probably has not read the full budget. How can my colleague say that in the budget we have not put into place anything for women? The obvious concern of everyone i

The Budget  Mr. Speaker, I am proud to speak in support of the recent budget brought down by my colleague, the Minister of Finance. This is a good budget. It is a balanced budget and a Liberal budget. It continues to support the government's commitment to prudent fiscal planning and to a de

International Women's Week  Mr. Speaker, today is International Women's Day. It is a day when men and women around the world join together to mark the achievements of women and the struggles of women, to witness the tragedy of the many women who daily suffer poverty and violence silently and powerlessly. Ho

Child Care  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member asked a question that is extremely important. Everything she quoted in the red book is true; it was true then and it is true today. The Minister of Human Resources Development is looking at how we can continue to keep that promise and implement it. W

Status Of Women  Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for a very good question on a very important day. The cornerstone of the government's initiatives for equality among women is gender analysis. I said earlier how that empowers and will increase women's economic independence, will look at thei

Status Of Women  Mr. Speaker, the government in its budget has stressed very much the economic independence of women. We have talked about initiatives in tax credits. We have talked about changing the child support program. We have taken money to be gained out of that program and placed it into

Status Of Women  Mr. Speaker, very important in terms of women's equality is that the government has agreed to put forward a plan for gender analysis that will cross every single government department. Gender analysis means that every time a policy, a law or an initiative is taken there will be

Status Of Women  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member is absolutely right. The key to women's equality lies in their economic independence. The government recognizes that fully. When one looks at the initiatives we have taken in the past and looks even closer now at the initiative we took during this bu