Mr. Speaker, let us return to the facts. The college in Saint-Jean is a military college; the government decided to close the military college and make it into a shell of a college, a sort of language school.
In light of the rejection of Quebec's proposal, I ask the minister if we are to understand that the decision to close the military college in Saint-Jean is not budgetary, as claimed, but rather political; is it not based on the desire to exclude Quebec and its institutions from the training of French speaking officers in the Canadian Forces?