Mr. Angus asked, am I opposed to redress? Mr. Chairman, absolutely not. I'm the minister who successfully managed to oversee the redress of the Chinese Head Tax and Exclusion Act, something that was not done or ever addressed by previous governments.
I'm the minister who brought about, for the first time ever, working with the Jewish community on the St. Louis incident and will recognize the country's refusal to accept European Jewish refugees during the Second World War. There was a failure to address that by previous governments. I'm the minister who successfully came to an arrangement with eastern and central European communities about the history of the First World War internment.
I'm also the minister who tried very hard to come to an agreement with four organizations in the Italian-Canadian community who did not qualify, according to our officials, for the kind of funding they were asking for, Mr. Chairman. And do I think there should be an apology? I think there was an apology, and I accept that, Mr. Chair.