Madam Speaker, I would like to thank my colleague for his excellent speech.
He was talking about context. Could he tell us a little more about the context of the time? In his answer to a previous question, he mentioned that Premier Bourassa had asked Ottawa for assistance and that the mayor of Montreal had also asked it to intervene. Fifty years later, it is suggested that Ottawa should not have intervened, despite receiving requests to do so from the premier and from the mayor of a major city.
When should the federal government deny the requests of a provincial leader and a mayor in a crisis situation?
Can he explain how he sees that context?