Mr. Speaker, this week, the Canadian and Quebec governments met and put aside their old jurisdictional quarrels to properly welcome Kosovar refugees.
For over a month now, these refugees have been experiencing the pain of having been forced out of their homes, villages and homeland. Deprived of shelter and exhausted, thousands of people still managed to reach refugee camps. Canada then invited some of them to settle here, and quickly provided humanitarian and material assistance.
This week, the Quebec government announced the concrete measures that it will take to welcome Kosovar refugees. These efforts on the part of the Canadian and Quebec governments make all Quebeckers proud.
We wish a warm welcome to these women, men and children, and we hope they can resume a normal life here, in peace and serenity, while waiting to go back to Kosovo.