Mr. Speaker, as we celebrate National Volunteer Week, I am pleased to draw attention to the considerable contribution made by Canada's volunteers, particularly those in my riding of Pierrefonds—Dollard.
Volunteers' presence is everywhere: in hospitals, in food banks, in schools, in amateur sport, in human rights organizations, in seniors' centres, and in youth programs.
Volunteers give of themselves, and their unpaid efforts, their ongoing presence within our community, their solidarity, merit our consideration.
In this National Volunteer Week, let us pay tribute to these exceptional Canadians who give unselfishly of themselves to the causes they believe in. As we are all aware, volunteers open doors to a better world.
My congratulations, and more importantly my thanks, to all those who volunteer.