Sheila Copps

[Option Canada, March 19th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, the hon. member says he does not know whose question I answered.

The interesting thing about Bloc members is that, when they do not like the information they are provided with, they cast it aside. We will recall the Le Hir episode. Millions of dollars were spent by the PQ when they were intent on achieving sovereignty.

After looking into the matter, Mr. Le Hir distanced himself from the sovereignist option and poof—he was gone. Poof—bye bye francophones! Any information they do not like they make disappear.

[Option Canada, March 19th, 1998]

Indeed, Mr. Speaker, the expenditures involved exactly match those made by Option souveraineté Québec.

[Option Canada, March 19th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, any information that is released is on the public record.

[Option Canada, March 19th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, I already said that the comments made by the hon. member, and by the member for Rimouski—Mitis who keeps repeating them, are false.

[Court Challenges Program, March 18th, 1998]

Done, Mr. Speaker.

[Option Canada, March 18th, 1998]

If we are going to talk about honesty, we cannot use Blocspeak.

[Option Canada, March 18th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, speaking of honesty, something I find rather odd on the part of the Bloc Quebecois is that they do not want to hear anything about the expenditures of Yves Duhaime of Option souveraineté.

They do not want to hear anything about the millions spent on the Le Hir report, which showed just how dysfunctional sovereignty is, and now there is no sign of it. And the francophones outside Quebec magically disappeared.

[Option Canada, March 18th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, the member referred to cabinet solidarity. The leader of the Bloc Quebecois was in Saskatchewan last week. He misled the people of Saskatchewan. He made statements he knew and still knows to be wrong, and he is continuing to make them.

I wish he would be honest enough in this House to recognize that what he said in Saskatchewan was just as wrong as what he said last week.

[Option Canada, March 18th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, once again, the member is misleading the House. When he accuses me of personally authorizing grants, he should know that I was not even minister at the time.

[Option Canada, March 18th, 1998]

Mr. Speaker, if the member opposite rereads the documents I provided him with two months ago, he will find that the comments he made today are still false, as false as they were last week.