Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister said today that he would consider disallowing a future Quebec referendum if the question was not honest. I quote: "I say that we have powers and we have to use the powers to make sure that the question would be fair to Quebecers and would be fair to the rest of the country". He also said: "The Constitution has a lot of powers to act under peace, order and good government".
I will put my question to the Minister of Justice. Is it the government's position that it could legally forbid the next referendum if it viewed the question as being dishonest? Is the government actively considering that as a policy option?