Mr. Speaker, I very much hope that our federalist allies in Quebec will see the value of clearly determining these questions that have now been put at issue.
As to what we are doing about it, we are expressing our position as forcefully and in as straightforward a manner as we can. We have framed questions that I think captured clearly what is really at issue here. Indeed, I wrote to one Quebecer this morning, Paul Bégin, the attorney general of Quebec, to invite him to participate with me in the Supreme Court of Canada.
I think it is very important for the attorney general of Quebec to participate in this exercise before the court.
The fact of the matter is he and I have divergent views on these important legal questions. What Canadians do when they have divergent views on important questions is they put them before the court for resolution. I have invited him to join me in the court so that we can get his views there and get a judgment from the highest court in the land.