Madam Speaker, I want to pay my respects to my colleague for the quality of his French. It is very good and it is a great inspiration for all members of this Parliament to learn the other language, because there is not just one official language, and all the official languages are at the same level. I appreciate his speaking in French, and I hope he will appreciate my answer in French too.
Last August, our leader unveiled the Canadian sovereignty act. As my colleague is well aware, an opposition party can introduce legislation, but it cannot have any economic impact. However, since the focus of our action is economic, the fine professionals who work in the House will tell us that, although we may be very nice people, our efforts will not work.
I see that my colleague is open-minded and is smiling. I hope he will convince all his colleagues to vote in favour of these positive measures to advance Canadian sovereignty and independence.