Mr. Speaker, it seems that, this week, opposition parties are trying to outdo each other with racist and discriminatory statements.
After a Reformer made totally unacceptable comments about black people and homosexuals, the Bloc member for Québec-Est is now trying to win the prize for bigotry.
While commenting the report tabled yesterday by the commissioner of official languages, the Bloc member compared French speaking people outside Quebec to paraplegics in wheelchairs with only two wheels.
The intolerant and discriminatory comments of the Bloc member are an insult to French speaking Canadians outside Quebec and to physically disabled persons.
If the Bloc member and the Reformer had the least bit of respect for Canadians, they would make a formal apology.