Mr. Speaker, I hope I understood the question correctly, because I never said we should not respect referendums. Quite the contrary. In 1980, in Quebec, we had a referendum. We obtained 40 per cent of the vote. We came back and worked very hard and tried to persuade people. We got as far as 49.4 per cent last fall, and we are going to suggest having another one, and that will be decided in the next election. Every time, the people decided. We never imposed decisions. We always made sure the decisions were made by the grass roots.
As for the issue of minority rights in Ontario, yes, I learned my history of Canada from the examples I was shown. When I was young, I heard a lot about Manitoba. I was told about certain decisions, as a result of which the Province of Manitoba, which should have been a bilingual province, never agreed to become one, thus altering the balance across Canada. But at the time, as far as I know, there were no referendums, not in Ontario either, although I would have liked to see the Ontario majority vote to remove the rights of the francophone minority.
We in Quebec use referendums. We never talked about rights in this way.