I'm from British Columbia. Parliament is very far away for many of the people I represent.
A few years ago, when I was a staffer, my sister came to Ottawa to visit for the first time. She walked up to the front of the parliamentary precinct and said, “Brad, why is there a unicorn with a chain around its neck and its tongue sticking out?” I said, “Well, Maegen, the Canada bondage unicorn is the symbol of Canada, and when anyone walks through the parliamentary precinct, they see all these weird-looking types of creatures.” To this day—maybe you could get back to the committee on this—I have asked the Library of Parliament, but I've never received a solid answer about what the unicorn with the chain around its neck and its tongue sticking out in front of Parliament Hill actually means to our country.
If you could report back to this committee, my little sister would love to know what the unicorn means for Canada and why it's so important to have it on the front of our parliamentary precinct.