Mr. Speaker, again, I must say that the Minister of Finance's last statement is also inaccurate. Cash transfers controlled by the federal government will shrink from $18 billion in 1995-96 to $11 billion, a drop of $7 billion. He should not be talking about tax points, as this is none of his business. If not for Jean Lesage, who managed to wrest these tax points from the federal government, today Quebec would be taking a quite a licking.
Will the minister admit that, as a result of the cut distribution criteria, Quebec will pay proportionally more than any other Canadian province in the next five years?