Mr. Speaker, I would like to follow up on the nature of that commitment.
Gordon Robertson, the former clerk of the Privy Council, has said that the government needs contingency legislation to deal with the possibility of an attempt at secession. The minister will know that Patrick Monahan of Osgoode Hall has said the same thing.
Is the minister prepared to go further and to table a bill in the House providing a legislative framework for any attempt by a province at secession?