Madam Speaker, I wish to pay tribute today to yet another Canadian citizen who has won an international literary distinction.
I wish to congratulate Robert J. Sawyer who recently won the world's most prestigious prize in science fiction, the Hugo Award, for his novel Hominids . His growing body of work--he had written 12 novels before this one--is recognized as distinctively Canadian in the way he tackles difficult questions as he does in Factoring Humanity and Calculating God , and in his choice of locations such as the ROM and the Sudbury Neutrino Observatory.
The award was given to him during the 61st World Science Fiction Convention held in Toronto at the end of August and early September.
On behalf of my colleagues, myself and my wife, I wish to offer Robert and his wife, Carolyn Clink, our most sincere congratulations and our best wishes for continued success and fulfillment.