Immigration Act  All those opposed will please say nay.

Immigration Act  Nay.

Immigration Act  In my opinion, the nays have it. And more than five members having risen:

Immigration Act  Pursuant to Standing Order 76(8), the division on the proposed motion stands deferred. Motions Nos. 13 and 14 will be grouped for debate but voted upon separately.

Immigration Act  Are his remarks being directed at the motion that by unanimous consent is to be voted on later? Do I misunderstand? If he is speaking to that issue, it will be dealt with later. We are now dealing with the issues presented by the hon. member for Bourassa. I would ask the minister to direct his comments if he would only at the matters before the House now.

House debate  The House proceeded to the consideration of Bill C-44, an act to amend the Immigration Act and the Citizenship Act and to make a consequential amendment to the Customs Act, as reported (with amendment) from the committee.

Immigration Act  Colleagues, my understanding is that this motion was ruled to be beyond the terms of the bill. As members know, members can by unanimous consent do whatever they wish to do, and this would appear to be one of those situations. Is there unanimous consent to accept the motion moved by the minister?

Immigration Act  Agreed.

Immigration Act  The House will vote on the motion moved by the minister at the end of the list. I shall now propose motions Nos. 1, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 18, 19 and 23 to the House.

Recognition Of The Patriotes Of Lower Canada And The Reformers Of Upper Canada  The confederative pact of 1867 seemed to want to establish a relationship based on the equality of two founding peoples, but in the history of this country, the francophone nation of North America has been confined to the status of an ethnic group, only a little harder to assimilate than other immigrants. The Patriotes reflected the awareness of French-speaking Canadians that they were a different nation. They wanted to obtain recognition of this fact from London and the other citizens of Canada.

Criminal Code  Madam Speaker, I am delighted to have the opportunity to respond on behalf of the Minister of Justice. While there were a number of comments in the hon. member's intervention that I could answer I shall somehow find the fortitude to resist. I am certain that all Canadians support the initiatives of the government that enhance the safety of our communities, whether those communities are urban or rural.

Supply  Madam Speaker, first of all, I would like to tell the hon. member for Saint-Denis that her remarks about cultural communities, which she said are disregarded by the PQ government, are not only false, but also disrespectful to the PQ government and to the people of Quebec, a community that is not self-centred, but, on the contrary, quite open to immigration and newcomers. Let me give her just one example. One of her co-nationals, Nadia Assimopoulos, chaired the executive of the Parti Quebecois in the 1980s. That is a telling example of the openness of Quebecers to cultural communities.

Supply  They already have control over their own tax system and their own legislative system. They have full control over education, language, culture and immigration. They have all that within Canada. To meet the requirements of the Referendum Act, which is the authority on which all referendums and plebiscites are held in Quebec, it is clear that there have to be two parties: a yes and a no side.

Supply  There is so much that is absurd, the prospect of soldiers in the new Quebec army lining up to be paid in Canadian dollars, the idea that Quebec needs independence to choose its own immigrants side by side with promises by the PQ of unrestricted mobility of labour with the rest of Canada. It is strange to hear the lamenting about how there is no room for Quebec in Canada when we can look around this city and see Quebecers occupying the highest offices this country has to offer.

Business Of The House  On Monday we will take up where we left off on Friday and follow this business with report stage of Bill C-44 with respect to immigration. On Monday as well we expect to introduce legislation regarding employment equity. We intend to propose that this bill be referred to committee before second reading pursuant to Standing Order 73(1).