Mr. Speaker, is the Prime Minister announcing that he would not be prepared to respect Quebec's electoral democracy? The leader of the official opposition has been duly elected, and a goodly number of the
members here have been elected by more than half of their fellow citizens, unlike many other people.
It can be seen from this morning's Globe and Mail that the minister prefers to hand out scoops on his unemployment insurance reform to the major dailies rather than to table the reform so it can be judged in its entirety by the population of Quebec.
Will the Minister of Human Resources Development admit that the leak referred to by the Globe and Mail proves beyond a doubt that his plan is not only to come down hard on the unemployed but also to go over the heads of the provinces, thumbing his nose at the Quebec consensus?