Mr. Speaker, I have had my answers to the questions put to me in February dug out. What I said at the time is this: We presently have action plans with eight provinces and two territories to reduce duplication. During the past year, we signed with the provinces and territories 64 agreements, which have been made public. We therefore have no objection to letting the opposition admire these fine pieces of work. Eight of these agreements were concluded with Quebec before September 12, 1994, and none since, obviously. We continue to use moneys in such a way as to reduce duplication and overlap. That is not just talk, that is what we are doing.
This was my answer. We use taxpayers' money to make the federal government more efficient. We do so in co-operation with the provinces when they want to co-operate, but since the Parti Quebecois came into office, no co-operation has been forthcoming on its part and, unfortunately, it failed to help make services more efficient in the province.