Mr. Speaker, you will agree that it is harder and harder to define what the federalists are proposing, since the Prime Minister talks about a fixed status quo and the federalist spokesman in Quebec, Daniel Johnson, talks about renewed federalism.
How can the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs justify his government's refusal to get involved in this debate? Are they so afraid of presenting Quebecers with a real debate on the two options: sovereignty or their status quo?