Mr. Speaker, I would like to inform the House that on November 1, a gala luncheon was held in Montreal to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the Association des médecins de langue française du Canada.
This association, with more than 5,000 members in Canada, the United States, and the West Indies, was created to promote the use of the French language at all levels.
On the occasion of its centenary, Dr. Jean Léveillé, past president, unveiled a medal representing the association's founding president, Dr. Michel Delphis Brochu.
The first recipients of the medal were Drs. Jacques Boulay, Jacques Genest and Victor Goldbloom of Quebec, as well as Ms. Gisèle Lalonde from Ontario, and Dr. Aurel Schofield from New Brunswick.
Congratulations to these first recipients and long live the one hundred-year-old association.