Mr. Speaker, in the Ginn Publishing case also, it was an anonymous verbal commitment made under a previous government-we never found out who had made it-and it was supposedly honoured.
Furthermore, the Prime Minister seems to be making a strange distinction between the Prime Minister, the head of the federal government, and the government, as if the Prime Minister did not have authority to commit his government when he gives his word of honour to another first minister. There must also be honour among first ministers.
Is the Prime Minister not ashamed to punish Quebecers in this way for rejecting the Charlottetown Accord?