Mr. Speaker, in his speech to the Liberal party faithful in Trois-Rivières yesterday, the Prime Minister accused the Government of Quebec of ignoring poverty, adding that Quebec had more poor people than anywhere else in Canada.
My question is directed to the Acting Prime Minister, and I imagine it will be the Minister of Human Resources Development.
Would the minister agree that it takes a lot of nerve to accuse the Government of Quebec of neglecting the poor, when his own government, in its first two budgets, launched an attack on the poor and the disadvantaged in Quebec and Canada, thus putting thousands of people on welfare?