Mr. Speaker, our U19 team showed off all its skills at the three-versus-three World Ball Hockey Championship final in Slovakia. Team Quebec won in the final with a score of 9–7. Can anyone guess who they beat? It was team Canada.
The work of the Fondation Équipe-Québec and its president, Stefan Allinger-Cormier, is making a huge difference in young Quebeckers' lives by giving them the opportunity to represent the Quebec nation. Like Scotland, Northern Ireland, Wales and Greenland, Quebec should have the right to wear its own colours at international sports competitions, especially since we are often discriminated against and our athletes are not given a place on the Canadian teams.
In closing, I condemn the Future of Sport in Canada Commission for recommending that the provincial and territorial sports associations be merged with the national federations. That is yet another example of Canada's desire to interfere in the jurisdictions of the provinces and Quebec. The Bloc Québécois will fight this—