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House Hansard - 4

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
November 25, 2021 10:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 4 - Nov/25/21
Mr. René Arseneault (Madawaska—Restigouche, Lib.)
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Mr. Speaker, I would like to begin by congratulating you on your new role. With immeasurable solemnity, Atlantic Canada proudly greets the sun each day before it casts its light across central Canada. Light comes from the Atlantic. With an Acadian in the Speaker's chair, the beautiful star that graces our Acadian flag shines even brighter. That said, during the election campaign in which we all participated, not a single individual, association, municipality or stakeholder expressed dissatisfaction with the hybrid Parliament that was operating in the midst of the COVID‑19 crisis. On the contrary, people congratulated us for being more present on the ground in our constituency. Without straying too far from the exact purpose of this motion, I would like to emphasize the fact that people talked to us about COVID‑19 and about recovering from the crisis, and they congratulated us on the work we accomplished while hybrid sittings were in effect. I would like to ask my young colleague, who was recently out there campaigning, if he heard the same thing during his campaign.
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