My proposal would, for the first time in the history of the Standing Committee on Official Languages, make it possible to study the status of French in Quebec. We know that our Liberal friends definitely do not want to do so. They are speaking out of both sides of their mouths. In the House, they tell us that they support French and Bill 101, but their actions prove otherwise. It was nothing more than a smokescreen.
I will not speak for too long, except to point out that it is clear that what we have here is parliamentary obstruction. The only aim of this proposal is to add five meetings. The bare minimum of respect would allow all the committee members to submit their proposals, and then to determine their order. We could then assign priority to whichever one we had agreed upon in an informal subcommittee.