Mr. Speaker, I hope that Liberal members will not vote against this. I have a number of reasons to hope that.
One is the fact that prominent Liberals have in the past been very supportive of this. A number of members of the current Liberal caucus were here in 1992 and therefore voted in favour of the Charlottetown accord which included among other things, a removal of the power of disallowance and reservation and a number of prominent Liberals, not the least of them was Pierre Elliott Trudeau, were strongly in favour of getting rid of these powers.
I think that members of all parties have a history of being supportive of this and we should see a consensus on this issue.