Mr. Speaker, this House of Commons voted a year ago on distinct society.
Again we have the Reform Party and the Bloc Quebecois together. Distinct society is very clear to me and it is something I have subscribed to all along. Everybody recognizes that the language in Quebec is different but perhaps the member does not know that. Quebec also has its own culture. Already in the Constitution the civil code of Quebec is the civil law in that province but not in the rest of the provinces. This was done in Canada in 1867 by the Fathers of Confederation.
I know the Reform Party does not want to respect the wishes of the Fathers of Confederation who wanted to have a civil code which was different for Quebec than for the rest of the country. This was among many other distinctions they gave in the Constitution.