"Start with liking Quebecers"-Madam Speaker, can you beat that? It bothers them to hear a young person like me identify himself as a Canadian of French origin, a Canadian who went to the trouble of learning the second language, who took the trouble to travel, visit and study with English Canadians. Sometimes it hurts the separatists to hear that. Unfortunately, we live in a changing world and unfortunately the opposition is unable to meet the challenge of Canadian federalism.
I have heard all kinds of speeches from the opposition, on Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Sir Wilfrid Laurier, St. Laurent, on real French Canadians, good Canadians who built and implemented programs from which I benefit.
This brings me to an important point on the official languages in Canada. Let us look at the efforts made by Pierre Elliott Trudeau to have the French fact recognized, to be served-yes, maybe not as well as we would like in Bonaventure or Montreal or other places-but I think this recognition of the French fact by the rest of Canada, of the existence of French, and promoting the language-it is an incredible achievement of our Liberal predecessors.
Let us talk about another great Canadian, a great Quebecer-