Mr. Speaker, on behalf of my colleagues in the New Democratic Party caucus I too would like to join with Jean Roy's many colleagues here in this House and former colleagues, family and friends in honouring his memory and expressing our gratitude for the service that he rendered to Canada as a member of this House for 11 years.
I did not know Mr. Roy; he left the House of Commons the year that I arrived. But one can certainly tell from the information that is available about his life that he was a person who served his
community well in this House of Commons and in a variety of other ways and in the community-
Mr. Speaker, I wonder if the hon. members from the Bloc Quebecois-