Madam Speaker, I cannot respond for Newfoundland, but I can for Quebec and say we wanted to carry out this reform a very long time ago. Had it passed this time in the House of Commons—I deeply believe so, and I am not speaking for my colleagues—Newfoundland too had a problem, and Quebec could have posed its problem in the same process.
However, you have to understand one thing. It is a small part of the problems we experience as a different people. When we see how Canada is changing and how Quebec is changing, we are forced to admit that they are not changing differently, they are growing apart. It is quite legitimate for you to change in one direction, as it is for us to change in another.
We are tired of having to fight over every little thing when the matter of jobs is so important as are the issues of fighting poverty, education and economic development.