Mr. Speaker, I would like to draw your attention and that of all Quebecers to additional moneys in the amount of $5.9 million granted to the Department of Intergovernmental Affairs last autumn.
We now know what this taxpayers' money is being used for: to fund the federal government group on the referendum.
We understand why these civil servants shun the cameras, why their offices are all unmarked and why their names do not appear in the government telephone directory. They do not want people to know that they are working on federal strategy for the no side.
Yes, the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs prefers to have his civil servants engage in a partisan struggle against the official opposition rather than work on eliminating costly duplication and overlap and on restructuring the federal public service.