Mr. Speaker, in his comments on the debates addressing citizenship that went on at the Bloc Quebecois general assembly this past weekend, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs made a number of statements.
“It is an evil thing to require this exercise of people” he said. He went on to state: “Canada as a whole is a small nation, an uncertain nation, one whose identity has never been assured. It holds tight to that identity. That is something that must always be kept in mind”.
The minister is once again demonstrating that the Liberal government is refusing to recognize the existence of the Quebec nation and people.
By what intellectual sleight of hand can he justify allowing Canada the right to reflect on its identity, but not Quebec?
What even more despicable is that the minister is seeking to again pass the sovereignty project off as ethnic. He wants to conceal the fact that it is open to all Quebeckers of all origins, and that more and more of them are coming on side.