Mr. Speaker, not only has the hon. member for Rimouski-Témiscouata shown her ignorance of, and probably also her disdain for, francophones outside Quebec, but this very morning the regional delegate of the Parti Quebecois in my area had the nerve to make the statement that francophones outside Quebec are a colonized people.
This is an area in which the federal government has always assumed its responsibilities far better than the Parti Quebecois. Allow me to offer this quote: "The government of Quebec has not done enough, even the PQ has not done enough. The federal government has certainly done far more than Quebec has. I am prepared to admit that. But I think that all of us, in Ottawa and in Quebec, ought to promote francophones outside Quebec". The author of that quote is Lucien Bouchard himself.