Mr. Speaker, the Parti Quebecois could not have found a worse ally to put the referendum issue back into the forefront.
Last week, the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste stated loud and clear that it intends to play a key role in the process to bring the issue of sovereignty back into the limelight.
With friends like the Société Saint-Jean-Baptiste, the Parti Quebecois does not need enemies. And with former premier Jacques Parizeau, whose dogmatic position in favour of unconditional separation is well known, the next referendum campaign should be interesting to say the least.
Sovereignists do not realize that Quebeckers do not want to separate. They do not want Quebec to separate from the rest of Canada and they do not want a referendum on this issue.
Quebeckers deserve referendum peace. They deserve a government that looks after the economy, instead of thinking up referendum questions.