Mr. Speaker, to deal with the problems of unemployment, the exodus of young people and the over-exploitation of natural resources, the people of Bonaventure in a byelection yesterday chose Marcel Landry and the Parti Quebecois, thus showing their desire for change and that they want to make Quebec a sovereign state.
As the great Quebec poet, Félix Leclerc, said so well: "The Gaspé is in all of us-a mysterious, silent, patient land. The cry that will frighten everyone will come from there".
After 37 years of Liberal rule, this byelection is a real thunderbolt in the Quebec sky and we are pleased with it.