Finally, you would like to get back to the pre-cutback level, in term of settling the fiscal imbalance. In the short-term, we can do that—that is what the Bloc Québécois is asking for—but in the mid- or long-term, should we not be thinking about a tax field transfer to Quebec, rather than a cash transfer? In fact, if we obtain a simple transfer, there is no guarantee that in 5 or 10 years, the federal government will not play the same trick on us again by reducing the transfers. The same battle will have to be fought again.
On October 25th, 2006. See this statement in context.