Mr. Speaker, I would like to put a question to my colleague. I know the Quebec Liberal Party decided not to join the Quebec government coalition because, even though it agrees with the issue in principle, it thinks this study will only be about sovereignty and that the Quebec government will only use it as another tool to promote its main objective which is sovereignty for Quebec.
Maybe my colleague from the Bloc could tell us once and for all why, since it has been in place for four years now, the government does not call a general election in Quebec and give all its citizens, like my colleague and myself, the opportunity to express their opinion on this issue and choose the government they want for Quebec.
That could be the solution. Why is the Parti Quebecois so unwilling to call a general election?