Mr. Speaker, certainly we agree with a lot of the things that were said.
More important, what I have learned from visiting Quebec a number of times is that the problems in Quebec are the same as the problems in Alberta or in any other part of Canada. We are all the same. We are concerned about the debt and deficit. We are concerned about crime. We are concerned about all of the same things. We are the same. That is the first myth that we have to dispel, that there is any difference between us because there is not.
The people in my part of the country do not hate the people of Quebec. The people in Quebec certainly do not hate the people of Alberta. We need to dispel these myths.
Economically, I believe firmly that as members of the G-7, in negotiating world trade as we are now actively doing, that the bigger the unit the better we are going to be economically.
I hope that the people of Quebec look at the big picture. We are going to be a trading unit of the Americas. I have said that in this House a lot of times. North and South America together are a trading unit. The smaller the unit the more difficult it will be balancing our budgets and taking care of our people.
We have to look at the big picture. The big picture says that the EU is going to get common currency and is going to come together more and more, that the seven tigers of the Orient are going to come together more and more and that the Americas are going to come together more and more. Rather than thinking of little units we should be thinking about bigger units. That is really the success of this country. This is the best country in the world and we need to save it with Quebec.