Mr. Speaker, I will not do it again.
I must say that Quebec wanted for quite a while to get control of family allowances-first with René Lévesque in 1965 and then with Castonguay in 1971-because big families were creating a specific problem at the time, and also because the Quebec government was not comfortable with the federal policy. These ministers, federalists and Liberals, wanted to apply a policy aimed at preventing childhood poverty, but were not allowed to do it.
I must add something. The minister's task force was especially interested in preventing poverty among children. It found that the countries which succeeded in preventing childhood poverty were those that applied the policy favoured by René Lévesque and Castonguay, that is to give family allowances to all families instead of waiting for them to be on welfare before helping their children. It is a system which has kept children and family prisoners of poverty; we have been wanting to change it for a long time. The first thing to do to change the system would have been to get control over family allowances, which we were unable to obtain.
When it comes to rigidity and child poverty in Quebec, we can tell you all about it. You caused it with your system. Compare-