Thank you. We were talking about this earlier, Mr. Chairman.
I don't really want to put too much emphasis on the terms "multiculturalism" and "interculturalism". There are good ideas in all models. Models change, they are organic; they are not static.
As I stated several times in my remarks, the federal multiculturalism program has to focus increasingly on building bridges between communities in order to improve mutual understanding and to avoid having parallel communities, as has happened in some major European centres.
We can learn from the Quebec model. Ultimately, your multiculturalism bill... The legislation is federal legislation and it applies to all of Canada. We have an agreement on immigration with Quebec, which gives it the responsibility for managing that program in that province. It is our opinion that diversity is one of the most important symbols in Canada. It can be found in the Constitution, in the Canadian Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It is the legal basis for federal multiculturalism.