Mr. Speaker, it seems that the arts community, including Roch Demers, a diehard federalist who campaigned for the no side, does not understand the Prime Minister, or should I say, understands him too well.
Earlier the Prime Minister explained that he did not intervene in the case of the heritage committee because he respected freedom of speech. That is what he said yesterday.
What explanation does the Deputy Prime Minister have for the fact that in this case, the government respects freedom of speech, but when the Liberal member for Notre-Dame-de-Grâce publicly challenged the Prime Minister, he was gagged by being forced to step down as chairman of the justice committee? Is there a double standard?