Madam Speaker, I would like to ask the member how he can speak on industry for about 30 minutes without even mentioning small and medium size businesses or even mentioning the word business.
His whole speech concerned the administrative structure. Does he not recognize that the Government of Quebec is quite free to structure itself as it wants, to create regional county municipalities, which have already existed for many years under the federal system, to set up its own decentralization plan, to plan as it wants? The federal government has absolutely nothing to do with these internal decisions of a province.
Does he not admit either that almost all government subsidies were or will be abolished for budgetary reasons and because we recognize that these subsidies are ineffective?
Once again, I am amazed that his speech dealt only with the administrative structure and that he did not even mention business; his speech was almost a Marxist treatise. His approach contrasts sharply with what the Minister of Industry said here earlier this week, when he said that the Canadian government recognizes that it is up to the private sector and not the government to create jobs. What the government can do, however, is to make the climate favorable for job creation by business.
I think that the member has absolutely no idea that it is business which creates jobs and not all the wonderful structures which he would like to set up.