It is obvious, Mr. Speaker, that the Minister of Finance does not know what he is talking about.
My question to him is this: How can the Minister of Finance claim that Quebec will have to take a number to join the WTO, when he knows-and I hope he knows it-that the reason these 32 countries are waiting for admission is because they do not have a market economy; that Quebec already meets WTO requirements; that Quebec is not too small, and that we are not incompetents either since Quebec is the Americans' eighth largest trading partner? Does he at least know this, Mr. Speaker?