Mr. Speaker, these are good words but they continue to miss the point, which is that the Government of Quebec is not interested in such plans and will proceed with another referendum at some point.
Let me go back to the Government of Canada's own commitments. On October 25, 1995 in a speech to the entire nation the Prime Minister said:
All governments, federal and provincial, must respond to the desire of Canadians everywhere for greater decentralization.
This was a commitment to all Canadians that the Government of Quebec simply could not reject on behalf of everybody.
As the government has done nothing but bash decentralization since the referendum, what specifically do the Prime Minister and the government have in mind in making this kind of a commitment?