Mr. Speaker, the hon. asks a leading question that certainly goes beyond the legislation or the treaty. The province of Quebec is in its own process through its present government of asking for certain measures which the government considers not in accordance with the constitution. I know of no parallelism between what is now being proposed under the Nisga'a treaty and what, as I understand from the record, the province of Quebec is asking for.
I have said before that the Nisga'a treaty and all subsequent treaties are subject to the constitution and to the rule of law. It was our belief in relation to Quebec proposals that they were beyond the constitution. That caused us to say that if there is any further referendum on this issue we would insist on drafting a question and on having the language corrected to show that fact, so people can determine it. If and when an affirmative referendum arises, it will be political judgment whether to respond to it.