Shameful. Mr. Speaker, if I wanted to score cheap political points, I would know where to go.
A real agenda for change that would address the demands of Quebec and other provinces has to have two characteristics: it must be within the federal government's ability to implement without constitutional wrangling, and it must be capable of commanding support among all the provinces, including Quebec. Reform has a list of 20 such changes. We call them the new confederation proposals.
My question will appeal to the ethics of the government. If we were to put these new confederation proposals into a brown envelope and leave them outside the office of the Deputy Prime Minister, would the government be willing to steal them so that Canadians could at least have some plan to address the demand for change in this country?