Madam Speaker, I am not sure whether the hon. member is fishing for differences that are not there. I never said that it is was not within the purview of parliament. In fact, I thought I had made an argument about why it was within the purview of parliament.
With respect to the language of conditions, I used the word conditions in an entirely different sense than the hon. member attributed to me. What I said was that the bill outlines what would create the conditions for an obligation to negotiate. I am trying to stick very carefully to the supreme court ruling. It said that only after a clear question and a clear majority—a clear question being a question that was very clear about the fact that it had to do with separation and with the province holding the referendum on becoming an independent country and with a clear majority on that clear question—would there be an obligation to negotiate. That is the sense in which I was using the word conditions.