Mr. Speaker, the daily, Le Soleil , reported in its February 14, 1995 edition that the head of the Quebec public service and secretary general of the Quebec government's executive council, Louis Bernard, had asked all deputy ministers last November to carry out detailed studies on the goods and services the federal government provided Quebec.
The purpose, for Mr. Bernard, was to find out how government functions would have to be reorganized so that the Government of Quebec could take over from the federal government before Quebec became sovereign. An initial draft of the study was to be delivered to Mr. Le Hir by the end of the month. That was in February.
Over seven months after the secretary of the executive council made his remarks, these studies by officials of the Government of Quebec remain shrouded in utter secrecy. Where is the so-called transparency of the-