Mr. Speaker, I would like to mark the passing yesterday of a prominent citizen and lawyer from the West Island of Montreal and a former member of the House, Mr. Edmund Tobin Asselin, who served as the MP for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce from 1962 to 1965, sitting for two years at the same time as his brother, Patrick Tobin Asselin, the MP for Richmond—Wolfe in the province of Quebec.
In addition to being twice elected to the House, in 1962 and 1963 Mr. Asselin served Canada as a flight lieutenant in the Royal Canadian Air Force from 1940 to 1946.
After World War II, he had the distinction of sitting on Montreal's municipal council from 1950 to 1962, before being elected to the House of Commons.
Mr. Asselin is survived by his wife, Carmel, his six children and his niece, Constable Janet Asselin, who is a member of the House of Commons security service and on duty this afternoon in the House gallery.
I would like to offer all my sympathy to the family.