Madam Speaker, we were saddened this past weekend by the deaths of two leading figures of Quebec's arts and culture, actress Sita Riddez and painter Stanley Cosgrove.
Sita Riddez helped shape the theatrical history of Quebec as well as generations of actors at Montreal's Conservatoire d'art dramatique.
Stanley Cosgrove, one of Quebec's great landscape artists, enjoyed an equally prolific career. His work is famous for its remarkable elegance and fluidity.
Although their careers may have peaked in the 1950s, they both remained profoundly rooted and attached to Quebec with all their heart. The sensitivity and passion of these two members of the same generation contributed to the development of Quebec culture, and to its becoming wider known.
On behalf of my colleagues in the Bloc Quebecois, I would like to extend my most sincere condolences to the relatives and friends of these two great Quebec artists.