Mr. Speaker, what is it about Ottawa-its air, its bilingual culture, its architecture, its tulip festival or the Rideau Canal-that makes more and more members of the Bloc Quebecois want to settle here permanently?
Two days before their convention, we learn that a few Bloc Quebecois riding associations want to change the status of the party to make it permanent.
This sudden interest in Canadian politics is surprising, to say the least, particularly in the light of the remarks made by the leader of the Bloc Quebecois on November 27 to the effect that the members of the Bloc were not sent to Ottawa to make a career out of it, that the situation could never become permanent.