Mr. Speaker, the Deputy Prime Minister has not really answered the question. Will she confirm whether or not the figure of some $300 million quoted by the Quebec government is true, especially considering that the strategy regarding the youth program will create more duplication and overlap?
Will the Deputy Prime Minister and her government pledge to release the studies to which the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs referred, precisely to downplay duplication and overlap between Ottawa and the provinces, so that all members of this House are able to put a figure on the cost of Canadian federalism, and so that, as the Liberals promised in their red book, the whole negotiating process involving the provinces and the federal government can be more transparent?
Is the Deputy Prime Minister prepared to release those studies, as did the Quebec government in the case of the Bélanger-Campeau commission, as did the Liberal Party of Quebec, which is of course pro- federalist, and as did the Parti Quebecois in that province? Will you release these studies?