Dans son discours prononcé au Canadian Club de toutes les villes, il disait qu'un ingénieur de Vancouver qui déménage à Montréal ne perd rien quant à sa culture et quant aux services, mais qu'un ingénieur de Montréal qui est muté ou promu à Vancouver a le choix entre sa carrière, d'un côté, et la culture et la langue de ses enfants, de l'autre.
In the speech that he made before the Canadian Club in every city, he said that if an engineer from Vancouver moves to Montreal, he does not lose his culture nor does he lose any services, but if an engineer is transferred or promoted from Montreal to Vancouver, he has to choose between, on the one hand, his career, and the culture and language of his children on the other hand.