The member for Mississauga West will recall a good story I told him about mufflers.
But the fact remains. These Liberal members from Quebec have remained muffled on this critical debate. They did the same thing during the debate on the Young Offenders Act and on marine parks.
Each and every time an important debate is held in the House of Commons, what do they do? They remain silent. It is well known that the Liberal members from Quebec have always remained silent.
It must be pointed out that, in 1982, when the Constitution was patriated, there were 74 Liberal members out of 75 in Quebec and they constituted half of the Liberal caucus, which included 162 members at the time. They let the Constitution be patriated even if all the parties in the Quebec National Assembly were opposed. They still voted with the government and remained silent throughout the debate.
Even though this measure excluded one of the founding peoples, they still preferred to dance with the Queen of England in front of the Parliament Buildings when this document legally excluding Quebec from the Constitution was signed.
Today, the Liberal members are behaving in much the same way in such an important debate, which deals with the survival of microbreweries and of 2,000 jobs. No. They stay put, say nothing and claim to be representing Quebec.
In the next election, we will remind them that they have chosen to serve their party and to serve the best interests of others rather than those of their homeland, the interests of the Quebec they were so keen on defending when they were looking to be elected.
This morning, at the beginning of this debate, my colleague from Saint-Hyacinthe--Bagot clearly showed what was at stake. Until second reading, we never thought the Liberals would be so despicable as to say, in an almost hypocritical way—I will dare say it, if I may—to exclude beer from this review—