Madam Speaker, what a shame that the hon. member opposite cannot tell an apple from an orange. Understandably, both are fruit, but that is no reason to confuse the two. Although we are no longer on the subject of the motion, too much is at stake not to reply to the hon. member's question regarding why we have proposed an association with Canada.
For one, we are not proposing an economic association with the federal government; we are proposing an economic association with the other provinces, with Canadians. It would be an economic association between peoples, not between governments. The federal government is the deadbeat; not the Canadian people. The federal government has acted in bad faith; not the Canadian people. The federal government is into petty politics; not the Canadian people.
By asking this question, the hon. member has revealed just how clueless he is about the referendum debate in Quebec. I invite him to pay more attention to the debate on the referendum, which I can assure him will be held in 1995.