Mr. Speaker, I wish to thank the hon. member for Don Valley North for his question and comments.
As you can imagine, Mr. Speaker, I fully support most of his comments, except for one. He said no one had denied or refused to acknowledge the Armenian genocide. He said no one had denied this event, and I totally agree with him. The hon. member's statement, however, raises the following question: If no one denies it, why refuse to give it official recognition? That is what I cannot understand on the part of Liberal members.
As for his second question concerning what is taught in the history books in Quebec and Canada about the genocides that have taken place throughout the world, I also fully agree with him. Being an educator who taught for many years mostly at the primary level, I obviously think that, in terms of giving students a sense of history, of collective conscience, it is very important to teach them about all these tragic errors, all these genocides that have been committed throughout the world, to give them this sense of history, this collective conscience so that, once they become adults, they, too, will exert pressure on their governments to ensure that such mistakes are not repeated.