Mr. Speaker, when there was an amending formula accepted by all the provinces at the time of Victoria, the party of the father of the leader of the Reform Party, the Socreds, was in power in Alberta. It accepted the amending formula at that time.
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Mr. Speaker, when there was an amending formula accepted by all the provinces at the time of Victoria, the party of the father of the leader of the Reform Party, the Socreds, was in power in Alberta. It accepted the amending formula at that time.
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Mr. Speaker, the leader of the Reform Party again is trying to do the same thing. He is just trying to build himself a position from extremely difficult circumstances which we were fighting for.
When it was very important, the leader of the Conservative Party was there, I was there and a lot of members of Parliament from this side were there, but the leader of the Reform Party was not in Montreal last Friday. He was just criticizing us like he has done during the whole campaign. We have won. Canada has won despite him.
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Mr. Speaker, the only person more disappointed than the Leader of the Opposition that the no side won is the leader of the Reform Party.
During the whole campaign, every day and every week, he was trying to bring in some new twist to create a problem for those who were fighting to keep Canada together. The leader of the third party was always there saying we should do this and we should do that, while the leader of the Conservative Party, the leader of the Liberal Party of Quebec and I were working out our differences to keep Canada together.
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My point is that the Parliament of Canada has already spoken. And the Parliament of Canada could speak again, but as far as we are concerned, we have always been in favour of a distinct society. And now very shortly, Quebecers will again see the members of the Bloc Quebecois, like the separatists they are, vote against distinct society in this House of Commons.
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He said there was a resolution, and he does not even have it.
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Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has not seen the resolution. I do not know where he got his text.
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-and the House leader of the opposition voted against Charlottetown. Then they went around Quebec blaming us for not delivering on Charlottetown when they all voted in favour of recognition of Quebec as a distinct society.
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While the Leader of the Opposition-
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Mr. Speaker, to me, the recognition of Quebec as a distinct society is important. It is something that the Parliament of Canada has already accepted, it was voted on in a referendum, and we voted in favour of a distinct society-
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Was Mr. Parizeau's government illegitimate because they won by only four tenths of 1 per cent?
The people have spoken and they have decided to remain in Canada, despite all the unbelievable propaganda, in which people were told that, if they voted no, there would be no more unemployment insurance and their pensions would be cut, without it ever being proven. These were absolutely gratuitous statements. Despite this, despite all these lies, they failed to win.