Madam Speaker, I would like to ask a couple of questions of the hon. member.
First, she talked about post office closures. She and some other members talked today about the reductions in UI benefits and so forth as some kind of a failure of our federal system. At the same time she complained about the deficit. Her party complains about the deficit, that this is a tax on the backs of the people of Quebec.
I wonder how you can have it both ways. How can we try to control the deficit by some of these manoeuvres and at the same time be blamed for not dealing with the deficit problems. I find this a terrible inconsistency in their philosophy.
Second, I would like to pick up on one of their other members, the member for Abitibi, who talked about the empowerment of some of the local regional municipalities. Would she support a philosophy that paid regional transfer payments and rather than sending them to the province of Quebec actually sent them to the regional municipalities in Quebec.