I would like to take a minute to have our pages come around the Chair.
Colleagues, as many of you know, this year's group of pages will be leaving us to pursue other goals and aspirations.
These pages are living examples of the great promise of our Canadian youth. I wish to thank these young men and women who have served us so well during the 35th Parliament, on behalf of all of you.
As members we hope all the pages have benefited from their experience here and that someday some of them, one of their number, might return to serve their country again.
They have put a great deal of energy into trying to make our lives easier and learning the ropes in Parliament as well as learning more about their country, while at the same time continuing full time university studies in first year.
Our pages are very special to us. They help us in doing our daily work. At the beginning, when they came to us, I addressed them as my pages and I surely would claim any and all of them. However, in effect they are not only my pages as your Speaker, they are your pages as members of Parliament in a very broad sense because these young men and women have served our country through us in
the House of Commons and in that sense they are pages for Canada. In your name, I want to thank them.