Another issue we're grappling with--although my sense is it's getting clearer, and we'll see what this does--is the notion of whether we would have a national referendum act, period. If there's a national issue, that's it; they run it and there's no question at all. There's been a suggestion that if provincial legislation for referendums--I'm not going to met say standards--matched up with the criteria in enough areas of the federal, if for some reason, whatever that might be, the provinces wanted to conduct it under their legislation, perhaps we could. We've had some experience with this. The Charlottetown accord I think went that way. So should we offer that option, or should we just say it's a national issue, a national referendum, with national rules, so stay away from any variations of that?
On December 1st, 2009. See this statement in context.