Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs earlier wanted to talk of the independence of the judicial process. Now we are going to be speaking about independence.
In 1992, in the referendum on the Charlottetown accord, Yves Fortier, counsel for the government, and Mr. Justice Bastarache, recently appointed by the Prime Minister to the Supreme Court, jointly chaired the yes committee, a yes that all Canadians, including Quebeckers, rejected.
Does the Prime Minister not consider, given the two are working side by side in the same political case, that this casts a shadow on the Supreme Court?