Mr. Speaker, Canada's number one magazine, Maclean's, has just published more of the anti-Quebec drivel that we have come to expect from it.
According to Maclean's, Quebec is a pathologically alienated and deficient society compared to the rest of Canada. Basically, it lacks social solidarity. We are becoming accustomed to being scorned by Canada, and increasingly outraged. Quebec-bashing has become socially acceptable in Canada. No other community could ever be humiliated this way without the House of Commons reacting with shock and outrage. If the author had written that Catholics, the Greek community, or homosexuals, for example, are pathologically alienated, the House would have rightly reacted vigorously and unanimously in the face of such an abuse. However, when Quebec is the victim, it does not matter.
Yesterday the member for La Pointe-de-l'Île moved a motion to condemn Maclean's, but the House rejected it. That move speaks volumes about the respect that federal parliamentarians have for Quebec.