I would like to address another aspect of the situation. A little earlier, we talked about the war of 1812 that we are celebrating at the moment and the celebrations around the 60th anniversary of the Queen's coronation and so on. I hope that the 150th anniversary of Confederation is not going to replace Canada Day on July 1.
Let us use the agreements as an example. Try to imagine the situation in my riding. I do not want to insult the Queen. I do not want to do that here today. But first we have the Queen and then we have the war of 1812. If we wanted money to celebrate Canada Day on July 1—I thought that the Queen's day was June 1—we had to set up programs dealing with the Queen or the war of 1812. If the little Acadian community in Caraquet wanted to talk about something else, to talk about its own Canada, it either had to tell lies or be shafted.
Are we going to see that for the 150th anniversary of Confederation? Is Canada Day money going to be used to promote the 150th anniversary of Confederation? That is what happened with the celebration of the war of 1812 and the Queen's jubilee. Money that is normally used in the way we like it, to celebrate Canada, was taken away.