Mr. Speaker, recently the Reform Party called upon francophone Canadians to cross political and linguistic lines to join the united alternative.
It is clear that most Reform members are too hard-headed to ever drop their anti-French stance.
Last week Reform members said that Canada is not a bilingual country. This is news to me and I suspect it is news to most Canadians across the country.
Now Reformers are complaining, as quoted in the Globe and Mail today, “The country is being run by francophones. You sigh and you whine and you snivel, and you get the money... and if you say anything about it, you're a bigot”. That is what the member for Yellowhead said. That is just rubbish.
Reformers should realize the benefits of being a member of both the Commonwealth and la francophonie. Canada's diversity is its strength, not something that should be wiped out as most Reform members seem to think.