Mr. Speaker, I would never presume that any individual sitting in this House, whether it was a Minister or whether an ordinary Member, is totally ignorant of the process and has not kept themselves up to date on the whole constitutional issue. Whether you are attending a conference or not, we all listen, we all read, we all have our updates and we are all painfully aware of the problems and the issues that are being faced by many Canadians. We also keep ourselves up to date because many of the people, particularly the aboriginal people of this Legislative Assembly, are watching and being very aware and concerned about how this country is evolving.
So there will be not one person in this Legislative Assembly that I would say could not go to a constitutional conference and very easily be updated on the very recent events, which are only a tag-on to what has been happening for many, many years in this country at very different levels.
I believe that Mr. Patterson has always been very interested in constitutional issues, and he has been updated on a day-to-day basis on what has been going on. I do not believe that Mr. Funston, who is our ongoing technical person, will be playing less of a role than he has in the past. However, we have duly elected people. Whether you are inside or outside, the effect that you have in representing your country is the work you do in relating to other people and making your cause known.
I sincerely believe that Mr. Patterson, the Minister of Justice, whether he is inside the meeting or outside the meeting, will use his every ability like anyone else who would have gone down to that conference to talk to other people, to relate to other people who are in that process. I am sure that there are many other people who are doing the same thing, because there is a limitation to the number of people who can sit inside the ropes.
I can assure the honourable Member that the Minister of Justice has diligently and consistently kept himself up to date on all the efforts that other members have made on the whole process that is going on in this country. I have every confidence, wherever he is sitting, wherever he is standing, that he is going to do the best job that he can, as anyone else would do. Thank you.