Mr. Speaker, yesterday Mr. Parizeau made a statement claiming that all federalist Quebeckers were of ethnic origin.
I have a question to ask of the PQ and the Bloc today: When will I qualify as a full-fledged Quebecker? As a black women from a variety of ethnic backgrounds: aboriginal, French Canadian, Metis, Belgian, born in Ville-Jacques-Cartier, I ask the leader of the Bloc “when?”
It scarcely seems necessary to ask this of Mr. Bouchard, for his opinion could not be any clearer, and I quote: “I admire Mr. Parizeau very much. He is one of the most brilliant politicians of his generation, he is an extraordinary man”.
When will the Bloc and the PQ stop throwing our non-French ethnic origins in our faces, labelling us federalist Quebeckers? When will they dissociate themselves from this type—