Thank you, Mr. Speaker. I would like to finish a statement that I started yesterday. Mr. Speaker, I wish to speak in regard to violence against women. I believe that our world, our societies and our communities would be a much better place the day when we start to treat women as equals, and when women can help us remove the systemic barriers that we all have in place that prevent them from doing that.

In government, in the workplace, in business and in our communities; there is a systemic way in which women are kept and prevented from feeling free, equal, respected and free from living with fear. I know even my daughters have been taught to be afraid of the dark, to walk on the roads alone in the dark, in taking taxis alone, teaching them to learn how to deal with sexist jokes, remarks, deal with the world and a society where there are still threats of violence made against women, the kind of verbal abuse that continues.

Mr. Speaker, I have a vested interest as I have said, because I do not want my daughters to live in that kind of world. I do not want any women to live in that kind of world. We have young people today that aspire to make a living or live freely without fear. It is our job to continue to try to do that. I know what my mother has lived with. I mentioned that yesterday. I know what my sisters have lived with, my relatives and women right across this country, in the north. It is a great cause to be in support of, to work for a day when all women will be treated equally and can live in a world without fear. Thank you.

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