This is one of the most important schools for immersion in the Vancouver area. And in that context, I want to welcome representatives from Sir Winston Churchill Catsilano, Vancouver Technical, Argyle, Balmoral Junior, Richmond, West Vancouver, Burns View, Burnaby, and Coquitlam. You know, people say that Canada is a multicultural society. You only have to look around your classrooms at yourselves and also at these representatives from all the schools in the area, and you see a multicultural Canada. People with different religions, different colours, different attitudes towards what a society is.
Bilingualism is new.
The last 25 years. And it's all a departure, a sort of revolutionary departure from what Canada was. But in fact, that really isn't true at all. For example, today is Douglas Day, named after the first governor of this province, Sir James Douglas, who was of mixed race a Scottish father, a black mother from Guyana. And his wife Amelia was the daughter of an Irish Canadian who had married a Cree chief.