Mr. Speaker, this is a revelation. I did not know that the Minister of Finance was a separatist, as these are his figures.
Does the Prime Minister confirm that, whatever the distribution criteria adopted, in 1997-98 alone, Quebec will be deprived of between $1.2 billion and $1.9 billion for the funding of its social programs? The PQ government was not the only one to predict these cuts. His friends in the Liberal Party in Quebec, including his colleague, the current Minister of Labour, said the same thing when they were in power.