Mr. Speaker, during his previous visit to the United States in March 1994 as leader of the Bloc Quebecois, Lucien Bouchard chose a particular terminology to describe with precision the nature of the option he is defending.
He told the Globe and Mail : `We want Quebec to leave the Canadian federation. I am not reluctant to use the termseparation' as it objectively describes the current situation''.
While addressing the Foreign Policy Association in New York this week, the new PQ leader used the words "sovereignty" or "sovereignist" on four separate occasions but did not at any time utter the term "separatist".
Even outside Quebec, the PQ leader continues to create confusion as to his goal by refusing to clearly explain that the sovereignty he is referring to cannot be achieved until Quebec first separates from the rest of Canada.