Mr. Speaker, I can only applaud the clairvoyance of the hon. member for Shefford who has an uncanny knack for predicting the future.
What the hon. member is saying is that in the eighties, when we went through the first referendum, scare tactics were used. Remember that at the time, the federal debt was $75 billion. They told us: If you leave the Canadian federation, you will end up with an economy that is not viable.
So we stayed. We stayed, and now we have a debt of $600 billion. What the hon. member is saying is that Quebec has everything it needs, together with its own economic infrastructures, to administer its own finances.