Mr. Speaker, there are just two days left and tickets are going quickly for the second annual gala for child poverty.
The successful event benefits needy children in the Ottawa-Carleton region. It is sponsored by the Fund for a New Generation, a group of active young people who represent all parties in the House as well as the public, private and university sectors. These young people strongly believe in grass roots community support.
I take this opportunity to thank the 100 local merchants and retailers and national sponsors Sun Life Canada, Merck Frosst and the Rider Travel Group. They have made the event possible but they cannot do it alone. Future generations need us now.
I ask members, visitors and pages to stick tapes in their VCRs to catch the Olympics and go to the Museum of Nature this Saturday night. Many children in the Ottawa-Carleton region
need our support. Tickets are available from any of the whips' offices. They should call now. Operators are standing by to take their calls.