Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
I would like to thank all three of you for appearing today.
I will only have time to ask one question, since I have just two minutes. My question is addressed to you, Mr. Guilbeault. It is strictly political; so don't answer it if you don't feel comfortable doing so.
I fully endorsed everything you have said about the way things should work. That is the way things should work in Quebec, but that will never happen, because in Canada, where we live, there is another opinion in the West, which is that things have to be done completely differently. I understand that opinion. Out West, people have natural resources, like gas, and that is important to them. They are making money from it and investing millions, if not billions of dollars in the infrastructure and everything else that is needed to develop it.
I really don't see how it is possible that, at some point, they might decide to suspend that development to get involved in something that we would like to do. The money is concentrated in Ottawa. The laws, regulations, by-laws and treaties are all designed to develop that resource—not for what we would like to develop. Do you realize that within Canada, it is impossible for Quebec to do what it wants?
It doesn't work.