44th Parl. 1st Sess.

January 30, 2023 11:00AM

Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23

Mr. Charlie Angus (Timmins—James Bay, NDP)

Jan/30/23 3:54:16 p.m.
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Re: Bill C-35

Madam Speaker, I have been here many years. We have gone through many debates on this, and I thank my colleague for her leadership on this. I remember Conservatives standing in the House and saying that this was some kind of a city issue. I represent people in rural country where a husband may have to be on the road, travelling, trucking, working the drills, and the mother is working. The idea that this is somehow some kind of rural-urban divide is a falsehood. The impact on rural women who have to work, who have to raise their families, often without support, is a serious issue. I want to ask my colleague her sense of what we need to do to make sure that this plan represents women across the country, and that they are not being marginalized because they are from rural areas or urban areas, the way that the Conservatives like to do to try to divide people.

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