Mr. Speaker, last week in the House the minister gave us to understand that he intended to disregard the unanimous will of the national assembly in pursuit of his plan to create a Canadian securities commission. He said that in so doing he was responding to the request of the business community, when this same community was letting it be known that very day in Quebec City that it did not support his plan.
How can the minister still claim to have the support of the Quebec business community, when the Montreal Stock Exchange, the Mouvement Desjardins, the Barreau du Québec, the Quebec section of the association of securities brokers, numerous firms including Ogilvy Renault, the Investors Group, McCarthy Tétrault, and many others, have said they are against the plan?