Thank you, Mr. Chair.
This is the first suitable opportunity for me to say something since the unfortunate incident. I would like to reiterate that my questions were about an event that was made public and that indicated that two people were filmed with a cell phone at Dorval Airport. They were wearing the veil and were going through the final checkpoints at the boarding gate for Air Canada. My questions had to do with the facts only. I have consulted the “blues” and I have carefully read everything that was said word for word. It is true that my colleague, Mr. Dhaliwal, never said that my party and I were racist. But he did use the words “incompetent” or “intolerant”. I want to stress that Bloc Quebecois caucus members, myself included, are not intolerant towards people of other origins, and that we are not incompetent in the matter. Now that the record has been set straight, I accept my colleague’s apologies and I consider the matter closed.