Mr. Speaker, if the minister can monitor the merger of the Reform and the Bloc Quebecois, that is okay, but what I want is a decision on the other mergers.
I have been travelling the country extensively in the last couple of months. An increasing number of Canadians are in opposition to the mergers.
There is growing opposition in his Liberal government backbench committee against the mergers as well. I wonder whether the minister might consider over the summer the idea of having a vote in parliament in the fall at the appropriate time, better yet a free vote, so we can express the will of our constituents on the wisdom or lack thereof of these proposed mergers.