Madam Speaker, I am asking for unanimous consent to table a document.
It is an article from the Quebec City newspaper Le Soleil on Claude Ryan's evidence before the legislative committee. It says:
Claude Ryan condemned the bill introduced by the Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs...and soundly criticized the bill on referendum conditions, becoming the first well-known federalist to openly express his dissent. In particular, Mr. Ryan said that by judging the clarity of any referendum question, parliament and the federal government “were directly interfering with the wording of the question”, an attitude that the former politician described as “not real federalism, but rather as a system whereby a government was being put under trusteeship”.
It is obvious that this bill denies the fundamental rights of the people of Quebec and I ask for the unanimous consent of the House—