Mr. Speaker, when we vote in a regular election, we vote for a government, and in four years' time we can choose to re-elect it or not.
When we choose to break up a country, that is just about irreversible. That is why democracies are more demanding for serious and irreversible decisions.
As regards the Charlottetown referendum, I would like to quote the current Deputy Premier of Quebec, Bernard Landry, who said at the time: “For a yes to be legitimate, it needs at least 58% of the vote to reflect those we respectfully call the anglophones and the allophones”.