Mr. Speaker, what we see developing here is a very disturbing trend on behalf of the Prime Minister. At the town hall meeting the other night on the national unity strategy, in order to reassure a Quebecer who is concerned about the future of Quebec in Canada, he said that if things ever got really rough he could always move out.
His solution today is a distinct society clause. In 1989 he opposed Meech Lake. He said this about the distinct society clause: "No matter how the supreme court interprets the distinct society clause, it would always make francophones or anglophones feel defrauded".
Why would the Prime Minister take a position on distinct society today that he once fought so vigorously against and why would he tell a Quebecer that if things get rough he can always just leave?