Mr. Speaker, Daniel Turp, the chairman of the Bloc Quebecois policy committee said recently, and I quote: "I find the speeches of some militant members of the PQ particularly troubling". He added that there were few hard core PQ members, although they were noisy and influential.
In response to this statement, the leader of the Bloc Quebecois might tell us whether Mr. Turp's statement represented the party's official position on the Parti Quebecois. If this is the case, would the Bloc leader provide details on the sources of friction between his party and that of his former leader, Lucien Bouchard?
The movement of dispute currently dividing militant separatists in the Parti Quebecois and the Bloc makes it very clear that these people are unable to put the interests of the public ahead of their ideological battles.