Mr. Speaker, I think we should refocus a little and read the motion before us today.
That the House demand an official apology from the Prime Minister on behalf of the Government of Canada for the enactment, on October 16, 1970, of the War Measures Act and the use of the army against Quebec's civilian population to arbitrarily arrest, detain without charge and intimidate nearly 500 innocent Quebeckers.
This morning, the leader of the Bloc Québécois gave a 20-minute speech to present this motion. It was a characteristically passionate speech, one that characteristically did not hide his separatist values. However, this speech, like the motion presented by his party, unfortunately missed the mark with respect to the history.
Let us first talk about the speech given by the leader of the Bloc Québécois and what he deliberately left out. During his 20 minutes, the leader of the Bloc Québécois never mentioned Pierre Laporte, he never mentioned—