Mr. Speaker, I want to congratulate the hon. member for his speech.
While we are having the debate, a wonderful thing is happening in my riding. A delegation from Baie-Saint-Paul, Quebec, is in our town of Nelson, B.C. I will have the great pleasure to join them tomorrow and I will meet these people and talk to them this week. I also want to add that when I was a teacher, my students participated in two exchanges with Quebec students, and I accompanied them.
I would like to ask the following question to the member. Does he think that if we made more exchanges, if we had more contacts with our friends in Quebec, English speaking Canadians would understand why it is essential to protect the French language in Quebec? Would they be more willing to work with our Quebec friends to protect the French language in Québec? That is my question to the hon. member.