Order, please. Before I put the question to the House, I have a brief announcement that I forgot to make earlier.
This year marks an important anniversary in the story of Canada's Parliament Buildings. On July 1, 1927, the year of Canada's Diamond Jubilee, the carillon of the Peace Tower was inaugurated. Eighty years ago, the late Viscount Willingdon, former Governor General, presided over the ceremony, which, in the words of Prime Minister William Lyon Mackenzie King would make the carillon a part of our national life.
Fifty-three bells, weighing from 10 pounds to 22,000 pounds, were installed in the Peace Tower by the authority of Parliament, and the first notes played were those of our national anthem.
Today, thanks to the talents of our current Dominion Carillonneur, Gordon Slater, Canadians and foreign visitors alike can delight in the melodious and majestic sounds emanating from the carillon of Parliament's Peace Tower, a memorial to peace born of victory.