Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to follow up on the fiscal imbalance, because this is a battle that the Bloc Québécois has been fighting for a long time. In fact, for years, we were the only ones talking about it in the House. Now we are the only ones fighting on so that the fiscal imbalance can really be resolved. In the last election campaign, the Conservatives started to talk about it, but they seemed not to grasp the concept completely. The tax aspect of the fiscal imbalance has been completely neglected.
The Séguin Commission, with which all Quebeckers agree and which in a way forms the foundation of this struggle to correct the fiscal imbalance, identified the concept of “fiscal imbalance” and coined the phrase. This was not just picking two random words out of a hat. The words were chosen because we were talking about an imbalance that was indeed fiscal in nature.
There is only one solution to this imbalance, and it too must be fiscal in nature. How can you claim that the fiscal imbalance is corrected, when your own officials who came before this committee admitted that there was no fiscal transfer in your last budget?