Mr. Speaker, I rise in the House today to congratulate a young man from Mississauga. Eight-year old Andrew Carlson from Russell Langmaid public school in Streetsville was the youngest winner of the “postcard Picasso challenge” sponsored by Bell Canada and the Canadian Olympic Association.
Andrew designed and coloured a postcard for the Olympic website which features four owls and an Olympic torch. His postcard is being featured on the wired Olympic website where Internet subscribers from all over Canada can select his card to send their best wishes electronically to our athletes competing in Japan.
Andrew is visiting Ottawa today with his father George. They will be meeting with several very important persons including the Sergeant-at-Arms and you, Mr. Speaker.
I and all of Mississauga are very proud of our young Andrew Carlson. Winning his first art contest at eight years of age bodes very well for an art future ahead.