September 20, 1968 (28th Parliament, 1st Session)

Mr. Adrien Lambert (Bellechasse):

Mr. Speaker, I should like first of all to thank you and to congratulate you on your appointment as Speaker of this house. You were chosen by the members unanimously because of your personal qualities which so well qualified you for such an important and difficult office.
This is the first time, Mr. Speaker, that I have the honour of sitting in this house, and I am therefore not familiar with the rules. [Mr. Lundrigan.l
However, I shall try to learn them and if I happen to break any of them by mistake, I beg you to excuse me and to show indulgence. I should also like to thank the Prime Minister (Mr. Trudeau) for his kind words of welcome to the new members, as I am one of them. I should like also to pay my respects to my devoted and dynamic leader, the worthy member for Temiscamingue (Mr. Caouette) whom I would call, like so many others, a great Canadian. He is a French Canadian who has not been afraid to firmly insist on the rights of the French element across Canada without interfering with the rights of others or destroying them.