Mr. Speaker, three people were cruelly murdered in 1992 in a restaurant in the constituency of Cape Breton-The Sydneys. When the government was presented with a petition demanding the return of capital punishment signed by 60,000 people from that area, its response was: "We'll give it serious consideration when bills are being drafted".
There are only 66,000 people in the entire constituency. Does every person in the riding have to sign a petition before the Liberals will stand up in this House and say what the voters have mandated them to say?
Well, I will declare the words the people of Cape Breton-The Sydneys want to hear from the Liberal government: Yes, we will hold a national binding referendum on capital punishment.