Mr. Speaker, the honours and advantages Canadian citizenship confers upon Canadians are too numerous to list. Our country is a model for the international community and the envy of hundreds of millions of people.
Canada could not have become the great country it is without the will and determination of the women and men, in Quebec and in the other provinces, who have worked unceasingly to attain the common goal of constructing a country in our image.
The wonderful thing about Canada is that it allows all of us to be proud of our status as Canadians, while not preventing us from being proud at the same time to be francophones, anglophones, and Quebecers.
This coming October 30, the people of Quebec will renew with pride their confidence in, and attachment to, Canada by voting no.