Mr. Speaker, I am outraged and embarrassed to hear people so closed to what is truly going on in Quebec.
We are talking about consensus; not unanimity, but consensus. All political parties have supported it through a unanimous resolution in the National Assembly, the bishops have approved it, and now the member wants to tell us how to run the school system in Quebec and elsewhere.
This is 1997. There is a situation that must be corrected, an error that must be put right to end a debate that has gone on for 30 years. These dinosaurs across the floor are no help to me in Quebec in selling the system I want to live in. This is why I am happy to say in the House that this amendment will be passed because it is important that it be passed. It will be passed because we are going to show, despite what the Reform members are saying—and that is why they will always be in the opposition—that this is a flexible system. There is accommodation, and a Constitution is a fundamental law of a country that must represent all its citizens.
When we see what is now happening with the Reform Party, we may again ask ourselves what planet they are living on. I ask the member and all Reform Party members to listen to what Quebec has said and to take a stand once and for all in order to resolve this problem and to help a people improve its situation.