Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member for Laval defend the federal charter, which I found somewhat ironic because in 1982, the Parti Québécois government used section 33 of the federal charter.
It is a bit ironic to hear a member of the Bloc defending the federal Charter of Rights and Freedoms. It was a Parti Québécois government in 1982 that actually invoked the notwithstanding clause over all of the statutes for the province of Quebec, thereby exempting all the statute legislation there from the charter. It is a bit ironic to listen to the member's comments in defence of the charter.