Recognition - March for Gender Based Violence

THE SPEAKER « » : The honourable member for Dartmouth South.

CLAUDIA CHENDER: I rise to mark the events that just took place this morning - a rally that was well attended by many of the people who were just introduced in the gallery - to draw attention to the epidemic of gender-based and intimate partner violence.

The folks who have joined us here today have been working hard to make sure that we don't forget the work of the commissions that have been impanelled in the last number of years to mark the tragedies in our province: the Mass Casualty Commission, the Desmond Fatality Inquiry, the National Action Plan, and the Report on Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls. They are working in the areas of education, justice, survivor support, and others.

Their work is invaluable, and I rise today to entreat my colleagues to make sure it doesn't go unanswered.