Mr. Speaker, this government and the Secretary of State for Multiculturalism continue to deny Canadians their fundamental right to choose, to choose for themselves how to protect and promote their heritage and culture.
I will continue to ask questions that challenge the way we spend our money while at the same time encouraging ethnocultural communities to fully participate in Canadian life adding to it their unique diversities.
We in the Reform Party reject a big brother, paternalistic approach to cultural imperialism that the minister continues to preach. Instead we believe we should provide jobs for Canadians. We should tax them less. We should allow them the freedom to develop and pay for those cultural programs that interest them.
This government should realize the importance of empowering ethnocultural communities to be themselves. Then truly it will have abandoned its culturally imperialistic and arrogant multiculturalism policies.