Madam Speaker, one does not respect Quebec's jurisdictions by attacking Quebec's laws. I do not think the minister really understand his role.
By spending $1 million in legal fees to challenge Bill 21 before the court proceedings have even begun, the federal government is proving one thing: It will stop at nothing to crush Quebeckers and undermine Quebec's secularism. It will stop at nothing to attack the notwithstanding clause and the ability of Quebec and the National Assembly to pass its own laws, laws that we want and that Quebeckers want, but that are not the laws of Canada.
The federal government wants to fight the will of Quebeckers no matter what the cost, but why is it taking their money to do so?