Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs refused to meet with the Fédération des femmes du Québec, the Front commun des assistés sociaux, and Quebec's student federations and labour congresses, going so far as to describe these groups as “mothball clubs”.
Will the Prime Minister tell us whether he shares the disdain in which his minister holds groups representing hundreds of thousands of Quebecers or whether he intends to dissociate himself from the minister's remarks?