Hon. David Anderson (Minister of the Environment, Lib.): Mr. Speaker, I had always understood, given my knowledge of constitutional law, that it was the House and the Senate that were the deciding body for democracy in Canada. It was not committees, not 60,000 people who signed a petition and not pressure groups.
L'hon. David Anderson (ministre de l'Environnement, Lib.): Monsieur le Président, d'après ce que je comprends du droit constitutionnel, j'ai toujours cru que la Chambre et le Sénat incarnaient la démocratie au Canada, et non les comités, ni 60 000 signataires de pétitions, ni les groupes de pression.