Mr. Speaker, yesterday, before a partisan audience, the Prime Minister claimed to be convinced that the No camp would win the Quebec referendum, adding that he would continue to hold out his hand to the Quebec premier and ask him to join Team Canada.
However, since he took office, the Prime Minister keeps saying no to Quebec's legitimate demands. He closed the military college in Saint-Jean and he still refuses to approve a conversion program for the defence industry. His ministers also rejected MIL Davie's recovery plan, and his government refuses to withdraw from the manpower sector, in spite of the plea made by all those concerned in Quebec. And now the Prime Minister is tabling a bill designed to impose Canadian standards in areas under provincial jurisdiction. Quebec will not make the mistake of voting No at the referendum.