Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Deputy Prime Minister. Yesterday, the Premier of Quebec announced his government's approach to the referendum and invited Quebecers to a wide-ranging debate on their political future. The Deputy Prime Minister called the draft bill on Quebec's sovereignty a fraud and an illegitimate, undemocratic manoeuvre.
How can the Deputy Prime Minister call this draft bill illegitimate when it fully respects the provisions of Quebec's referendum law, the same one under which referendums were held in May 1980 and in October 1992 on the Charlottetown Accord?