Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague, the member for Joliette, for his excellent comments and his remarkable analysis and I also want to congratulate him for his speaking skills.
You are quite right dear colleague. How peculiar it is that whenever the federal government talks about eliminating duplication, overlap and inefficiency, it never looks in its own back yard, but always in the provinces' back yards.
It is quite amazing. On the one hand, it creates inefficiency. On the other hand, it says that we, as sovereignists, should respect the Canadian Constitution, but it does not even do so itself. In 1982, when the Prime Minister imposed the Canadian Constitution on Quebec, the present Prime Minister was there. He was one of those who forced Quebec to accept this unacceptable Constitution.
He tells us we should respect the Constitution, but when the time comes for him to respect the jurisdictions stated in that Constitution, he pays no attention whatsoever to it. Double standards. Whenever it suits him, he goes ahead, and when it does not, he puts aside all his beliefs and his constitutional convictions.
As I said earlier, it seems the government is annoyed whenever the provinces agree on something and live in harmony, whenever they implement a sophisticated system, which is constantly improving, an efficient protocol for the issuance of securities.
It seems the federal government does not like that and feels it has to interfere. But when it does, the quarrelling goes on. It is easy to understand. If things are so wrong, if it is so hard for us to agree in so many areas, very often it is not our fault. It is often due to provocation from the other side. We were used to a system which constantly provoked Quebec, something that is still going on under this Prime Minister, who was an important player in 1970 and 1980, one of those who forced Quebec to fall back into line.