Mr. Speaker, it is just a few minutes ago that these words of the Minister of Justice have come to my attention. I regard them very seriously, as I know all my colleagues do.
I share the views of my colleague from the riding of Ontario. It may well be that the Minister of Justice and the government were operating under an understanding which was based on the written statements of the Government of Newfoundland distributed to the people of Newfoundland in a householder which included the words "where numbers warrant". It seems logical to me that we might expect that is the intention of the Government of Newfoundland. If indeed that is the case, then the House did err last June in what it passed and we now have an opportunity which we must not let pass to correct that wrong.