Mr. Speaker, it is highly unlikely that the minister would brag about accepting referendums restricted to the Crees and Montagnais, an essentially ethnic referendum in which the other people living on these lands were not allowed to vote. That is a very interesting statement coming from this minister.
He was not asked whether or not referendums were held in Quebec. Rather, he was asked specifically whether he dissociates himself from his assistant deputy minister's memo. We are not talking about just anybody, about one of 3,000 public servants, but about the assistant deputy minister. Is the minister going to summon his ADM and take appropriate action? That is the question. We are not asking the minister for his life story. He should be responsible and answer the question.