Similarly, the Foreign Affairs Minister of Senegal even spoke at the conference in front of Minister Verner and the Minister of Foreign Affairs, Mr. MacKay. He was extremely direct in asking Canada to apologize. Mr. Diouf said in his letter that he was satisfied with the treatment he had received. The minister suggested to me that Mr. Diouf was satisfied with the reception he had received from the Franco-Manitobans, but not with how he was received in Toronto, I can assure you. We must distinguish between the two.
I am extremely proud of the francophone community in Manitoba. This gentleman was well received. Mr. Diouf was nice enough to say that he had been well received by us. However, if we were to ask him how he was received in Toronto, I don't think his answer would be the same. Today we are not talking about how he was received in Manitoba, but rather how he was received when he arrived in Canada.