Mr. Speaker, Louis Saia, a legend of Quebec theatre, passed away on April 1. Louis Saia was the co-author of Broue, the most popular play in our history. He also leaves us Les voisins, another play co-written with his longtime collaborator Claude Meunier that still makes us laugh at ourselves 40 years on.
Between Ding et Dong, La petite vie, Paul et Paul, and Radio enfer, it is hard to grasp how many of the classics enjoyed by countless families would not exist without Louis Saia's contributions. Then there was his film franchise Les Boys, the first of which premiered in 1997 and broke all the records for a Quebec film, at a time when Quebec was the only place in the world immune to the box-office pull of Titanic. As far as I am concerned, his career deserves every accolade that the world has to give.
On behalf of the Bloc Québécois, allow me to offer my condolences to his family, loved ones and the Quebec cultural community at large on the loss of one of its giants. I thank Louis Saia for everything and ask him to join Michel Côté in raising a glass, a “petite frette”, to the good health of us all.