Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Prince-Albert-Churchill River told us that this country has been good to Quebecers. So why has sovereignty made so much progress?
I have been an independentist for more than 35 years. At the beginning, in the 1960s, we were seen as crackpots. In the 1966 provincial election, the Rassemblement pour l'indépendance nationale or RIN, which was led by Pierre Bourgault, garnered nearly 8 per cent of the vote. In 1970, 23 per cent of the people voted for the PQ. In 1973, the PQ received 30 per cent of the vote and, in 1976, it came to power.
Did the hon. member for Prince-Albert-Churchill River ask himself why there are so-called "separatists"-although we prefer to use the term "sovereignist"-in Quebec?