Mr. Speaker, I would like to start right off by telling the Reform Party that the Bloc Quebecois has nothing to learn from them about democracy. That is the first thing.
I agree fully with the Government Leader in the House when he says that this party ought to get its act together. In Quebec, we have a wonderful motto: Je me souviens , I remember. I remember that party was opposed to the gag imposed on debate on Bill C-2, among others.
When the vote came on bill C-2, however, that party unanimously emptied its seats. The westerners elected members from the Reform Parity for a reason: to sit in their seats, and from those seats to make their dissatisfaction known, not off in the corridors, not off in their offices. That is how to make oneself heard.
The Bloc does not, therefore, have any lessons to learn from the Reform Party when it comes to strategy and to democracy. If we agree to an extension of this debate, it is for the men and women who work in the Bellechasse region, in the Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup, in Lévis, in the Beauce. First and foremost, we represent human beings, which is why we have agreed to extend debate on this issue. We have no lessons to learn from the Reform Party.