Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his presentation, but there are a few gaps in his knowledge.
First of all, our Canada began in 1534, and his in 1867. Ours became Quebec. That is what they have trouble understanding. That is what they have trouble getting into their heads. He tells us that the caucus was, as he said in English, “shocked”. Shocked indeed, they ought to have woken up earlier, because on the eve of the referendum, the Prime Minister had said that the question was clear and that it was irreversible. They did not have enough brains among the bunch of them to realize that the question was clear.
They woke up the morning after the referendum saying “Oops, we nearly lost”. The Prime Minister had convinced them “Just wash your hands of it, and I'll deal with it”. They still trust that fellow today, they still believe that his bill is going to get us somewhere. It will, into a dead end, into a confrontation. Or we will go.
As I have already said this morning: We are biding our time, but our day will come.