Mr. Speaker, I suppose if we had another 80 hours we could have heard more witnesses.
How long do these members want to continue to debate the issue of sovereignty? I can tell them that people in my riding and I think people in the rest of Canada, including many people in Quebec, are simply fed up with it. The bill put some clarity forward. Who can argue against that? Who can argue against a question, in all honesty, that simply asks: Do you or do you not want to separate from Canada?
There were three paragraphs in the bill. The legislation consisted of a page and a half. Do we need 1,000 amendments to clarify it, or is that not, very clearly, simply an attempt by the Bloc Quebecois to put a wrench into the machinery of government?