But he must not lay claim to a monopoly on insight into this kind of thing, because I have been working on this matter for close to ten years now. I think I can safely claim to know at least as much as he does.
I know that the opposition is quite upset about the issue. They see that in a few minutes we may vote in a new law which will strengthen the great confidence that the Canadian population already has in its government. The Liberals have been working like they always have on this issue, and that is what we intend to continue doing, that is what we promised and that is what we, as the government, will indeed do.
A little earlier, I heard the hon. member for Berthier-Montcalm talk about what he called the Liberal government's flexible conscience. Now, this is from people who got themselves elected under the separatist banner, calling themselves moderate separatists during the election campaign. They called themselves strong separatists in separatist ridings, and moderate separatists in those that were not. But, once they got elected and came to Parliament, they all threw out those principles and became militant separatists. Now, all of a sudden, the leader of their party decides to champion a form of federalist separatism. Look closely at what the members opposite have done. Separation with Canadian passports, Canadian currency and a federal Parliament. That is what some members opposite start calling separatism when they see that their agenda is going nowhere.
So, we are now dealing with federalist separatists and separatist separatists across the way. But now, we must know whether the separatists-