Mr. Speaker, the Deputy Prime Minister has therefore not excluded that possibility, although the federalist leader in Quebec, Daniel Johnson, made it quite clear yesterday that it was up to Quebecers and Quebecers alone to answer this question, in a process initiated by the National Assembly of Quebec and not by the federal government.
Nevertheless I would like to ask the Deputy Prime Minister if by excluding any federal participation in the consultation process, she means that a federal strategy is already in place and will be limited to spending tens of millions of dollars to sing the praises of Canada, as was the case in 1980.