Mr. Speaker, I rise with great pleasure today to congratulate one of the most acclaimed and recognized of our winter sports figures, Jean-Luc Brassard, a gold medal winner in the 1994 Winter Olympics.
Jean-Luc won the dual moguls event at the 2001 Canadian Freestyle Ski Championships this past Sunday at Mont-Gabriel in the Laurentians.
This is particularly good news, since Jean-Luc had surgery to his knee last year and is coming off rehabilitation.
Congratulations, Jean-Luc Brassard. We salute your perseverance and skill.
I would also like to report on an event I attended this past weekend, as part of the family cup.
For the third year in a row, thanks to the financial participation of our government, competitors from one family have been honoured and rewarded. I saw one race in which a 73-year old grandfather, his son and two grandchildren competed.
Congratulations to all the families that participated, and to the competition champions.