Mr. Speaker, “If silliness were sold by the metre, there is no doubt the Minister of Heritage would have become a billionaire a long time ago”. This comment was made on Sunday, in Le Soleil , by journalist Jean-Simon Gagné.
Mr. Gagné came to this conclusion after hearing about the following anecdote. The minister visited an elementary school in a poor neighborhood of Ottawa. As is her custom, she boasted about her country, saying: “Canada is the best country in the world. It is a rich country where people are happy and wealthy. Everything there is to be found in huge quantities—wheat, oil, gold, uranium, maple syrup, potash and even one quarter of the world's freshwater reserves. Canada is a paradise”.
A young schoolgirl from Ottawa sitting at the back of the class stood up and asked the minister “How do we get to Canada?”