{"id":2088,"date":"2013-04-24T15:16:00","date_gmt":"2013-04-24T15:16:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rf.podcastfixit.com\/index.php\/2013\/04\/24\/ouellette-pans-pequistes-pillorying\/"},"modified":"2015-06-01T19:41:52","modified_gmt":"2015-06-01T19:41:52","slug":"ouellette-pans-pequistes-pillorying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newscoverage.org\/index.php\/2013\/04\/24\/ouellette-pans-pequistes-pillorying\/","title":{"rendered":"Ouellette pans P\u00e9quistes pillorying Supreme Court of Canada"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>By Robert Frank<\/b><br \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thesuburban.com\/\">www.thesuburban.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Guy Ouellette says that the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois government has gone overboard by distorting the objective of asking the federal government for more transparency about the 1982 patriation of the Canadian constitution.<\/p>\n<p>On April 16, all members of the provincial legislature\u2014including Ouellette\u2014voted in favour of a motion asking Canada \u201cprovide access to all the information contained in its archives,\u201d after a book by Montreal historian Fr\u00e9d\u00e9ric Bastien alleged that some meddling might have occurred whilst the Supreme Court justices were deliberating the patriation process.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s fair to ask the Canadian government to provide access to all the information that it holds in its archives that will help to shed light on these events,\u201d Chomedey&#8217;s elected representative, who also heads Laval&#8217;s&nbsp;provincial Liberal caucus, told<i> The Suburban<\/i> in an interview, \u201cbut we weren&#8217;t calling for a Royal Commission or trying to put our hands on the Supreme Court of Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt&#8217;s important to recall that the Supreme Court sided with Quebec and the other provinces in regard to the patriation of the constitution,\u201d reminded Ouellette, \u201cand despite this missed opportunity, the relationship continues and a majority of Quebecers are attached to Canada.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCanada remains a lever of economic and social progress for Quebec,\u201d he continued, explaining that the Liberals&#8217; intention when they supported the motion was \u201cto shed light on what really happened.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnyone can write whatever they want in a book, so only the evidence contained in the federal archive can permit people who have read what Bastien wrote to decide whether or not it is factual,\u201d Ouellette asserted.<\/p>\n<p>  (function(i,s,o,g,r,a,m){i[&#8216;GoogleAnalyticsObject&#8217;]=r;i[r]=i[r]||function(){<br \/>\n  (i[r].q=i[r].q||[]).push(arguments)},i[r].l=1*new Date();a=s.createElement(o),<br \/>\n  m=s.getElementsByTagName(o)[0];a.async=1;a.src=g;m.parentNode.insertBefore(a,m)<br \/>\n  })(window,document,&#8217;script&#8217;,&#8217;\/\/www.google-analytics.com\/analytics.js&#8217;,&#8217;ga&#8217;);<\/p>\n<p>  ga(&#8216;create&#8217;, &#8216;UA-45892555-1&#8217;, &#8216;robertfrankmedia.blogspot.com&#8217;);<br \/>\n  ga(&#8216;send&#8217;, &#8216;pageview&#8217;);<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Robert Frankwww.thesuburban.com Guy Ouellette says that the Parti Qu\u00e9b\u00e9cois government has gone overboard by distorting the objective of asking the federal government for more transparency about the 1982 patriation of the Canadian constitution. 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