Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs can go ahead and repeat his set speech which is meaningless to Quebecers. That is his privilege. He decides how to answer the question.
I would like to ask him this: Even assuming that Quebecers forget the Prime Minister's past, as he asked them to do, and consider only the last two years of his mandate, do the minister and his colleagues realize that every time the Prime Minister referred to the Quebec referendum question, he said it was not in the cards, he did not want any of it and even that we would get a drubbing?
Does the minister think this is the sort of thing that would make Quebecers trust him?