Mr. Speaker, before the hon. member makes claims about the positions of the government, she would be well advised to read what her own leader had to say on the issue of distinct society back in 1989. He said in an interview on the distinct society clause: "At a strategic level I think we could accept some kind of trade-off between Quebec and the resource producing regions". That is what Preston Manning had to say about distinct society then. Why is he saying something different now?
In the House of Commons on November 30th, 1995. See this statement in context.