00:00:00.000Well, I might surprise some in that I at least somewhat agree with statements I know my opponents here have made in the past that this referendum should not be used as a leverage argument.
00:00:12.400I don't believe you, you know, I grew up shooting from a young age, you don't point a gun at something unless you intend to shoot it.
00:00:19.460And I think that is applicable here too.
00:00:22.400And I do believe, to its credit, the people who have put forward the referendum and the citizen initiative, that's why they had a clear question.
00:00:30.000We don't have a clear question now, and there's reasons we got to this point.
00:00:34.580If this does become a point of leverage, it depends on how we play it.
00:00:39.720I think that with all due respect to the Premier, she made a terrible mistake in scheduling the constitutional reform questions at the same time as an independence referendum.
00:00:51.080Those should have been had right now, and then an independence vote should have been scheduled six months after.
00:00:57.140give people a chance to vote on reform and put it to our other fellow Canadians
00:01:01.400see if they pick us up on it and if not then we should have voted on it we've