Mr. Speaker, last summer I was an observer at the NDP convention in Ottawa and I could see what was decided there.
I read with a great deal of interest one of the resolutions that the convention adopted, clearly recognizing Quebec's right to self-determination, and going as far as recognizing Quebecers as a people. This is the first federal political party that did that. The NDP recognized that Quebecers are indeed a people.
How can the NDP leader now explain that, in an unbelievable flip-flop, she is accepting that the federal government can make a pronouncement on the acceptability of the referendum question asked by the national assembly? How does this position square with the resolution passed last summer?