Mr. Speaker, I understand that the Bloc Québécois members want to create a diversion. I would nevertheless like to remind them that we have invested historic sums in culture, not for the sake of artists' loyalty, but rather so that artists can be loyal to themselves and their artistic expression. For the leader of the Bloc Québécois to claim that Canada's investments in culture could neutralize our artists shows what little regard, even contempt, he has for our artists in Quebec.
My message to them is that neither the leader of the Bloc Québécois nor the leader at their headquarters in Quebec City has the right to judge other Quebeckers on their loyalty to Quebec.