Mr. Speaker, either the member misunderstood the question by the Bloc Quebecois member for Drummond or I misunderstood her answer.
I shall be brief. One thing is clear: the whole area of separation is under provincial jurisdiction. Members on both sides will agree that separation is under provincial jurisdiction. Divorce, however, under the Canadian Constitution, is a federal jurisdiction.
Is the hon. member in favour of having a joint committee consider the issues of custody, visitation rights and parenting following separation or divorce? Had the government across the way stuck to the deal it made with the other place last year to consider the issue of what happens after a divorce, I would understand, but can the hon. member, who is a member from Quebec, accept that, under the guise of a nice little joint committee and the pretence of protecting the rights of children, they jump in, with both feet, and interfere with the rights of Quebec—because I am a member from Quebec—and discuss separation and divorce as a single issue, mixing everything up as they do on a regular basis? Can she tolerate that?
That was my question.