Mr. Speaker, that was quite a leap.
The hon. member opposite just said the government imposed a gag order. Need I remind the House that the government has offered to extend the time, but the Bloc Quebecois member rejected that? He did not want to debate the measure.
Finally, in 1997, in an interview on the bill to do away with denominational school boards, the Leader of the Bloc Quebecois said that even study by a parliamentary committee would constitute what he called “an affront to the democratic process”. That is what the Bloc Quebecois said—