Senator Banks: It is not impossible, however, to imagine that that government might be, at some time in the future, a minority government and would face across the aisle in the other place a phalanx of opposition parties, each of which has announced very clearly that it is in favour of the principle of 50 plus one being sufficient as an indication of the population of a province wishing to separate and begin the negotiations that would lead to that separation.
Le sénateur Banks: Il n'est pas impossible d'imaginer que ce gouvernement sera un jour minoritaire et ait à affronter une phalange de partis d'opposition qui ont tous déclaré qu'une majorité de 50 p. 100 plus une voix constitue une indication suffisante de la volonté qu'a la population d'une province de se séparer et d'entreprendre des négociations en ce sens.