Mr. Speaker, yesterday, October 1, I attended what might have been a fairly routine event, the release of a series of postage stamps with a circus theme.
Today I wish to congratulate and thank the President and CEO of Canada Post, the hon. André Ouellette, for his dynamism, which he transmits to the entire corporation, and for the vision he has demonstrated in the choice of stamp issues and in planning their release.
The routine nature of the release of a stamp issue yesterday was transformed into something rare, in fact unique as far as I know. The four clowns depicted on these new stamps are all still alive, and attended the ceremony. What is more, two of them are father and son, Giovanni and Frederico Boris Iuliani.
I wish to thank these four artists, all of whom live in my beautiful riding of Verdun—Saint-Henri.