-bleak reality.
Mr. Speaker, Liberal members are cynical to the point of putting words in my mouth to describe their own harmful actions to Quebec and Canadian families. It is terrible to see them behave like that!
The Minister of Finance tabled an elaborate strategy to solve the problem of the deficit and the debt, a problem which everyone recognizes, but that strategy targeted the poorest in our society. Consequently, the Bloc Quebecois made detailed suggestions which respect the dignity of people, of the poor, of those who are looking for jobs but cannot find any, and of those who are depressed and who get even more depressed when they see the Liberal Party of Canada continue to make them pay a price which they should not have to pay. I did present these suggestions to the Minister of Finance and to those cynical members opposite.
In fact, we presented an eight-point proposal to the government. The minister should stop saying that we only complain. We do make constructive suggestions which could allow us to recover over $12 billion in the first year alone, without making the plight of our poorest ones worse.
For example, we suggested to the Minister of Finance and to the Liberals that the government should completely withdraw from fields which fall under provincial jurisdiction, instead of continuing to invest in those, as proposed in the Axworthy reform regarding education and health, but-