Mount Royal. Of course! How could I forget? I already went to see her.
Of course the government wants to listen to everyone. If we are talking about the proposal, you must talk about this proposal. The government allows two months for a parliamentary committee to hear all of Canada on a thorough reform, the modernization and restructuring of the whole income security system, and it announces that it will table a policy on April 1. That is what I heard this morning. That is very little time to hear everyone. I had several opportunities to sit on parliamentary
committees studying much more restricted subjects. If the government has a plan, it should come out with it.
Anyway, the government was elected to govern. I find this show of concern touching, but if you accept and are prepared to take power, you have some ideas. You do not just keep telling people what their problems are. However, I did not say that you did not have any ideas. I must have mis-spoken. Nevertheless, no one in this country can maintain that the infrastructure policy takes the place of an employment strategy. It is a short-term policy which will create 65,000 temporary jobs at best. It is better than nothing, but it is not what we call a jobs strategy when the needs are what they are now.
You said that my way of speaking was harmful. I regret that deeply because what I tried to explain here, before the hon. members opposite and beside me, is the urgency of the situation in Quebec. This urgent situation which they-