Mr. Speaker, I am amazed the member for Kamouraska-Rivière-du-Loup can tell us with a straight face that he is for respecting the results of a referendum.
I well remember, as do other Canadians, the night of the first Quebec referendum in 1980 when René Lévesque simply uttered "à la prochaine fois". In other words, he said that they did not accept the results that night, that they were going to have another referendum and another referendum. We have a term for it now in English: neverendum.
The people of Canada are fed up with the kind of approach where the separatists of Quebec, of whom the member is one, simply refuse to accept the democratic will which has been expressed twice now by the people of Quebec. They will continue to come back again and again with whatever question they need to form in
order to get the answer they want. I wonder if the member can address himself to that.
Also, the member made the point that the Senate should just simply pass this amended term 17 which the House passed recently. I was not supportive of it. To believe that is fundamentally to misunderstand the role of the Senate. We can debate here whether we should even have a Senate, whether it should be appointed or elected. I have very clear views on that. However, if anyone takes the trouble to understand the role of the Senate, it is precisely to review legislation and to refer legislation back that it feels is deficient, particularly vis-à-vis minority rights. Can the member understand that point of view?