Mr. Speaker, it is really quite pathetic.
When I see how this Conservative government treated His Excellency Abdou Diouf, I am ashamed, as a Canadian and as a Quebecker.
After cancelling his meeting with His Excellency, Mr. Diouf, at the last minute and in light of the apparent belief of his incompetent Minister responsible for the Francophonie that dignitaries are met by telephone, can the Prime Minister confirm for me that one of the security officials at the Toronto airport threatened to send Secretary-General Diouf back by plane, despite his diplomatic passport, unless he submitted to a body search, telling him it would make no difference if he were Jacques Chirac.
It is shameful.