Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance.
Just yesterday, the Minister of Finance asked the official opposition to make suggestions for reducing expenditures. Yet on December 15 in this House, he denounced proposals made by the Bloc Quebecois and denounced the fact that they would only amount to a reduction of $5 billion.
Rather than contemplating another tax increase for the middle class, why does the government refuse to act on the suggestions made by the official opposition, such as collecting $6 billion in unpaid taxes, eliminating duplication which costs $3 billion in Quebec alone, scrapping over $1 billion in unproductive subsidies to companies, cutting the defence budget-