Madam Speaker, I am very pleased to take the floor for questions and comments on the speech by my colleague for Louis-Hébert. She dealt with the substance of the matter. It is quite important to point out that this debate has been requested by sovereignist members, who have come to Ottawa in order to make sure decisions on Quebec's future would be made democratically.
We were given a mandate in 1993, and it has been renewed in 1997, after the referendum. People tell us we lost the referendum and we should accept these democratic results. We do accept them, but we think we can go on trying to convince Quebeckers because we have been able to raise the level of support from 40% in 1980 to 49.4% in 1995.
Our approach is a democratic one, and I am very proud that we are the ones who raised this issue.
I appreciated the call to Liberal members, especially newcomers, those that have nothing to do with the Trudeau generation, who did not take part in the process that gave us the Canadian constitution, a constitution for the judges. When the constitution was unilaterally patriated, it was to create a society ruled by the judges, the Pierre Elliott Trudeau society. The result is an ever greater involvement of the judiciary.
My question to the hon. member for Louis-Hébert is this. If the Liberal majority in the federal Parliament votes down our motion, would that not be an even greater rupture than the unilateral patriation of the constitution? Once more, Quebeckers would realize that the country in which they want to live would not make such undemocratic decisions.