Mr. Speaker, I have a supplementary question.
Some of the premiers and many other Canadians want to be assured that the federal government is preparing a principal federalist response to the various problems and issues that Quebec's separation could create for Canada and the other provinces. These are problems and issues which the Prime Minister considers hypothetical and which he said yesterday the federal government does not want to think about for fear of being accused of accepting the inevitability of separatism.
Who should be preparing the federalist response to these problems and issues if the federal government is not prepared to accept the responsibility?