Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs. Last week he said
that federal buildings in the Outaouais area and elsewhere in Quebec would remain federal property until negotiations on them were concluded.
Will the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs acknowledge as well that common sense and reason along with the rules and practices of international law in the matter of state succession provide very clearly that, when sovereignty is proclaimed, all of the assets of the federal government located on Quebec territory automatically become the property of Quebec?