moved for leave to introduce Bill C-291, an act respecting a national year of the grandparent.
Madam Speaker, the bill is designed to declare the year 1995 as the year of the grandparent to celebrate the value of grandparents in the Canadian family. Many of us who have had the privilege of having grandparents realize the pillars they are to children and grandchildren growing up.
We also realize that grandparents experience some difficulties in modern day life. They concern access to grandchildren when a divorce occurs and so on. It seems to me that 1995 could be correctly utilized as the year to raise the consciousness of all of us on the value they provide to the Canadian family.
I am honoured to present the bill to the House. I certainly hope it meets with some success in subsequent proceedings.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed.)