Mr. Speaker, there are lots of women of merit in Quebec, and I am not including myself necessarily, before he says something about it.
Yesterday the Minister of Public Safety refused to give a clear answer about the constitutionality of his bill to expand the powers of CSIS. He refuses to say whether the government's lawyers have looked into this issue or even whether the Minister of Justice has declared it to be constitutional.
Why does the minister refuse to answer this simple question? Is this the result of ignorance or incompetence?