Mr. Speaker, will the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs acknowledge that what the government plans to do about recognizing Quebec as a distinct society and about the veto has no connection at all with the request made by Quebec Liberals on the weekend to include these two concepts in the Canadian Constitution, and that the government certainly has no intention of reopening the Constitution to do so?
In the House of Commons on November 27th, 1995. See this statement in context.