Mr. Speaker, I have listened over the last little while to members of the Bloc speaking on their position. There are several things that seem to be fairly common throughout what they are saying.
First of all they are still looking for the government to pour more money in the form of grants and subsidies into the province of Quebec. This is to help with the continuation of rail service, a service which across the country is having a tremendous problem trying to break even.
We have listened while the Bloc on a number of occasions has promoted a rapid rail line from Quebec into Ontario. To date there is no substantive evidence whatsoever that this rapid rail line is financially viable. As a matter of fact any statistics I have seen have pointed to just the opposite. It is strictly a money losing proposition.
Surely the Bloc can recognize the financial position and the crisis Canada is in. I really wonder how members of that party can stand here day after day and request that the government in fact borrow more money to plough into the province of Quebec for infrastructure and services. It just does not make sense from a purely logical point of view that members of the Bloc actually think this money is growing on trees and that they have somehow been deprived for the last 20 or 30 years. In fact, Quebec has been operating at a transfer payment deficit for many years. The funds have not exactly been withheld from the province of Quebec.
Now I get to my last point. In addition to all this and the fact that the Bloc has requested over and over again that more funds be poured into the province of Quebec for infrastructure and services, this is the same party whose goal in this House is to facilitate the separation of Quebec from Canada.
Of all the illogical notions I have ever heard in my life, they have the audacity to stand here and ask for more and more money to be poured into the province of Quebec, when at the same time they are trying to separate from Canada. For goodness sake, where is the logic in what they are saying? Will they get their stories straight? It just defies logic to sit here and listen to them.