Mr. Speaker, last February the member for Longueuil reported on an advertisement by the Canadian embassy in Poland for potential immigrants from that country to Canada. The ad stated that Polish people would only be required to know English to immigrate to Canada.
Now, the Canadian embassy in Portugal is guilty of the same thing. The Canadian Embassy placed an ad in the Lisbon newspaper Expresso to inform potential immigrants to Canada of the conditions for admission. Although it states that knowledge of French and English would be considered an asset in applying to immigrate to Canada, this ad was written exclusively in English.
Here is another significant example illustrating that Quebec should have exclusive jurisdiction over international relations. Quebec should be able to project internationally a true image of its identity and of the reality in Quebec.