Mr. Speaker, I want to read a quotation from the Minister of Canadian Heritage.
They are becoming more multicultural themselves and now they're getting really proud of who they are. They want to get rid of the image of cowboys drowned in oil.
She was talking about my home province of Alberta. I suppose we as Albertans should be glad that she has finally discovered us and that she is amazed to discover that in Alberta the only culture is not agriculture, and art is not the guy who runs the local grain elevator.
In my riding of Edmonton--Strathcona we have one of the liveliest cultural scenes in the entire country. For the past 23 years, one of the largest theatre events in the world, the Fringe Festival, has been held every summer in Old Strathcona, and the Edmonton Heritage Festival is a one of a kind showcase of the multicultural diversity of my city and my province.
If the minister would care to join me on a tour this summer of Edmonton--Strathcona, I am sure we could expand her cultural horizons. She would continue to be amazed that there is in fact culture in places other than in her own mind.