Mr. Speaker, for several weeks now, the Bloc Quebecois has been questioning the government about its haste in passing Bill C-20, but has not received any useful answer.
On Friday, the group Pro-démocratie criticized the government's haste, adding:
While it is true that Ottawa has made a habit of resorting to unilateralism, denial of justice and rights, and repeated violations of ethics, we will never get used to it. On the contrary, we will always condemn this—After 1982, after the tens of millions of dollars spent on the 1980, 1992 and 1995 referendum debates, after the unilateral adoption of the social union framework, after all these violations of fair play and ethics, we want to condemn this most recent show of force and ask for the withdrawal of Bill C-20, because this bill is an attempt by the federal government to set the rules and to subordinate the people of Quebec to its authority, when in fact the people of Quebec has exclusive jurisdiction over these issues.
The message could not be any clearer.