We also, every day, see people like Kimberly and Gerald Lizano-Sossa, 14- and 15-year-old kids, stand up and fight and try to explain why they want to be Canadians, why they want to go to school here, why they want to work here, why they want to live here. If people in those kinds of conditions have the courage to stand up and speak out, then certainly we have an obligation to try to do our best to represent them.
On April 9th, 2008. See this statement in context.