Mr. Speaker, I rise today to speak of pride, the pride of Lennoxville, a small municipality in the beautiful eastern townships of southern Quebec with 6,000 citizens, and the pride of Bishop's, a small but beautiful university in Lennoxville with 1,700 students from all across Canada.
You see, yesterday in Halifax one of Canada's smallest universities won the Canadian university national basketball championships for the first time, a dream come true.
Last year Chatelaine magazine listed Lennoxville as one of the top 10 cities in Canada for all around sports.
A couple of years earlier, Lennoxville was named one of the 10 best places to live in Canada.
Mayor Doug Macauly and university chancellor Alex Patterson and over 200 anglophone and francophone fans travelled to Halifax to cheer our Bishop's Gators to glory.
We are a community that supports our people and institutions. We are what Canada is all about, proud to be Canadian.