Mr. Speaker, I challenge the minister to deny what I am going to say, considering what I just said. Under the item "transfer payments to the provinces" Quebec's loss, for this year alone, will be $650 million. That is what was said, Mr. Speaker.
And I would ask the Minister of Finance to confirm that over the next three years, additional cuts announced in his first two budgets will mean, in the case of Quebec, a total shortfall of more than $3 billion in funding for health care, post-secondary education and social assistance.