Madam Speaker, I would like to ask a question through you of my hon. colleague, who himself raised the matter of the coalition.
There is something very important in the coalition between the Liberals and the NDP, which he has been talking about since the beginning, and that is the members’ right to vote. According to what I have seen and my understanding of it, the Bloc agreed not to vote freely according to its conscience, as is its right within these hallowed walls, and agreed not to vote against the government until 2010-11 even if that is contrary to its own members’ wishes and its own convictions.
I would like to know whether he checked the legality of this, that is to say, whether the sale of their right to vote is legitimate or even legal?