Mr. Speaker, Ian Darragh's article in November's National Geographic offers a bunch of clichés on Quebec, including political uncertainty and partition.
But the worst of it is that National Geographic runs down Quebec's economy and presents a catastrophic view of Montreal. With Quebec's economy growing 2.9% faster than those of the United States, France and Italy and with Montreal becoming the North American high tech capital, we might wonder about this journalist's intellectual rigour.
However, we stop wondering when we discover that he is a consultant with the Ottawa-Carleton Research Institute, an organization promoting the economy of the Ottawa-Carleton region. It is clearly a conflict of interest that the famous magazine must surely have been aware of.