Mr. Speaker, the G-7 summit in Halifax gives us another example of Canadian federalism. Although French is, in fact, totally absent from the summit site, the Leader of the Govern-
ment in the House said yesterday that Canada projected "the image of a bilingual country".
This image came into sharp focus during a press conference by a Japanese official. Faced with the reporters' stupefaction when he started his presentation in French, he continued in English, explaining that he thought Canada was a bilingual country. The people of Quebec have had enough of this veneer of bilingualism, which does not respect the Canadian reality and does not even keep up appearances any more.
The person who said that the summit was not held in Quebec City because the separatist mayor of that city had not put a Canadian flag over city hall did not even notice that the mayor of Halifax had not done so either.
Again, the Prime Minister is clearly showing his inconsistency and contempt for the French fact in Canada.