Madam Speaker, I am sorry to have to speak English today.
I know most Canadians think the October crisis happened only in Quebec, but as I was preparing for this debate I learned that the francophone community in my riding of Edmonton Strathcona was also impacted. Students at the Campus Saint-Jean were arrested during this attack on our civil liberties that Tommy Douglas and the NDP spoke out against.
Today the francophone community and francophone culture in my province are under attack again. The UCP government is refusing to support the Campus Saint-Jean, despite a legal contract to do so.
Knowing how important it is to recognize, and indeed to cherish, our francophone culture in Quebec, would the member agree that protecting francophones across Canada is vital to healing the scars caused by the October crisis?