Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs knows perfectly well it is unconscionable for the Prime Minister of Canada to tell his ally, the head of the No committee, that the distinct identity of Quebec society will certainly not be enshrined in the Canadian constitution.
Will the minister at least admit that the reason the Prime Minister will not include this distinct identity in the Canadian constitution is that he ran his campaign for the leadership of the Liberal Party on an anti-Meech Lake platform, so much so that the then Minister of Finance said in Le Devoir on March 9, 1990: ``Jean Chrétien is about to destroy forever the credibility of the Liberals in Quebec''? Would he agree the Minister of Finance was right?