Yes. Excuse me, Mr. Speaker. You are right.
I just wanted to show that the last government is the one that cut services across Canada. It cut the service in my region of Gaspé from seven days a week to three. However, we are the ones who decided to restore rail service, but I ask the opposition to admit that their leader was party to a major decision to slash VIA Rail's services throughout Canada. I think that the Leader of the Opposition should be good enough to appear before us here to explain his actions to members of this House, Canadians and Quebecers. He should say, "I cut VIA Rail's services because I no longer believed in it."
I ask his opposition critic to tell me why Mr. Bouchard-excuse me, the Leader of the Opposition; I apologize, Mr. Speaker-who claims to be the great defender of Quebecers cut so many services, up to 50 per cent, throughout Canada in 1989.