Mr. Speaker, the Comité des Québecois et Québécoises pour le non has had to give in and prepare the budget for year one of an independent Quebec, having realized that, despite repeated calls for it by the general public and the business community, the Quebec separatists were still refusing to put any figure to their plans for separation.
The first year budget as presented yesterday represents a scientific update of what the leader of the Parti Quebecois had presented in 1973.
From it we learn that an independent Quebec will inherit a deficit of $15.6 billion, minimum. Quebec workers will therefore find themselves having to pay at least $3,000 in additional taxes annually.
Quebec's separatists refuse to talk about the costs of separation. We shall do it for them, since the public has a right to know. On October 30, the answer to the project for separation will be No.