Mr. Speaker, the question is twofold.
First, there is the Canada social transfer. To be sure, the federal government transferred responsibilities in various sectors, including health, housing, as I pointed out earlier, and education, without also transferring related budgets. There is no doubt that the federal government dumped on the provinces, thus forcing the Quebec government to review its social programs, so as to balance its budget.
As the Bloc Quebecois has been telling the government in this House, the whole issue of clandestine work must be reviewed.
Bloc members sitting on the Standing Committee on Finance made a number of proposals on this issue. You can rest assured that, in Quebec, the same thought process is going on and the Government of Quebec has taken steps in certain areas to control this problem. I do not think any politician can oppose such measures. At some point, we must absolutely give ourselves the necessary means to control clandestine work, something which the members opposite are not doing. Yet, they have received, on
several occasions, suggestions from Bloc members sitting on the Standing Committee on Finance.