The Minister of Canadian Heritage runs his department so well that he must have hidden the book carefully, or in the National Archives. Or perhaps it is in the waste basket.
I think, dear colleague, that you have drawn the essence of what I wanted to convey in my remarks: this budget is worse than any budget tabled by the Conservatives. The Liberals are making cuts that are more severe, in a way. They boast left and right that they want to manage properly their great Canada, the best, the number one country in the world, and so on. But they are forgetting one thing: they are not getting money from those who have it. This way, those who keep sending them money during their fund raising campaigns instead of spending it on taxes will be able to continue supporting them. So, the wheel turns and traditional parties are maintained in power because of this.
We are often accused of having our motherhouse, or head office, in Quebec City, but it is well known that theirs is Power Corporation. Just take the piece on satellite television published in La Presse . They sought the opinion of the public, but on the corporate side, they only sought that of Power Corporation, while this a very widely known issue. They could have met with officials from Cancom, Expressvu and others, but no, Power Corporation of Canada managed to get exclusive coverage in La Presse , to show off. Everything else was left out.
It is all in the family and it is clear that they failed to check their red book carefully before preparing their budget.