Mr. Speaker, I could have given you other examples, but I think that the presentation I made just a moment ago clearly showed that the level of Quebec's participation in agricultural tax revenue, taxation money sent to the federal government and reinvested in Canadian agriculture is I repeat, unfair; we realized that numerous programs were unfair.
In reply to my colleague's question, I would say that if Quebec were to separate and become sovereign, we could keep all that money, that is approximately $28 billion in various taxes sent to Ottawa each year, and redistribute it through our different agricultural programs without being subjected to federal inequity and discrimination. We would then offer our own farmers many very profitable programs. I think, in that case, we could be much more aggressive on the international markets and carve our own niche for milk, poultry, eggs, grains or anything else we would chose to produce in Quebec.
I think there would be no problem whatsoever. On the contrary, sovereignty would solve a problem.