Listen, Mr. Speaker, I am being asked to accommodate people, to help. We are saying that the deadline will be October 1, 1998 in order to help those affected make the adjustment. The legislation was to take effect on the date it was passed by Parliament. It is a bill that opposition members supported. They voted in favour of it. But they are behaving like political opportunists and no longer care right now about the health of Quebec's young people.
In the House of Commons on March 3rd, 1997. See this statement in context.