Madam Chair, I must first of all say that I had resigned from the Canadian Unity Council well before the last election. I won't give my reasons for that, but I did resign.
I make no apologies for being a strong advocate of the unity of Canada and I will always express those views. Having said that, I think it's very important that we recognize that when the people of Quebec send other members, when they send non-unity members to this Parliament, we recognize and respect their views. So we can agree to disagree on lots of things. We have other members on the commission who will disagree with me, and we have all kinds of different views representative of the commission, and they will all be together making decisions together.
One thing I must again say is that none of my views, none of the things I may have said in the past about politics or government policy or immigration or anything else will have anything to do with the work of the commission. The work of the commission will be specifically related to putting together a code of conduct and process, and reviewing that code of conduct annually through an audit process, and tabling in the House how well the government has followed the process of the commission they set up.
It seems to me, if I were a member in the opposition, I would probably be looking forward to that report, because it's certainly going to be interesting to see how well they perform.