Mr. Speaker, last weekend, under cover of an official languages symposium, the official languages commissioner decided to defend the anglophone minority in Quebec instead of denouncing the unacceptable conditions faced by francophone communities in English Canada.
It is unfortunate that the commissioner did not take the opportunity to urge the federal government and the governments of the English provinces to give francophone minorities the same treatment as the Government of Quebec gives its anglophone minority.
Regardless of our political stripe, however, we must support the efforts of Franco-Ontarians to keep Ontario's only francophone hospital alive.
The Bloc Quebecois urges all members of the House to give generously to the SOS Montfort funding campaign, to obtain campaign collection boxes and to set them out on their desks in Ottawa or in their riding.