Mr. Speaker, I want to explore whether this action represents the totality of the government's plan or whether it has further plans.
Yesterday at a congressional hearing in Washington, Christopher Sands of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies speculated that there has been talk that the federal government plans to put a secession clause in the Constitution after the next election and that it would raise once again the issue of a national referendum on this issue.
Is the federal government prepared to go further and to say that all Canadians must have a say in their constitutional future and the future of their country, and that such a policy would include a national referendum?