Mr. Speaker, in a last-ditch effort to save the college in Saint-Jean, the Quebec government offered $8 million a year, enough for this institution to run properly, while meeting the federal government's cost-cutting targets. The Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs rejected this offer from Quebec out of hand.
Can the minister of Canadian intergovernmental affairs tell us if the federal government seriously analyzed the budgetary impact of the Quebec government's offer to spend $8 million a year to run the college in Saint-Jean before it hurriedly rejected it?