Mr. Speaker, by postponing, as the minister says in the budget, the negotiations with the provinces on the distribution of transfer payments, is the Minister of Finance trying to conceal from Quebecers before the referendum the negative impact of the new Canada social transfer because it is Quebec which will lose the most, 41 percent of the transfer payment cuts in 1997?
In the House of Commons on February 28th, 1995. See this statement in context.