Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member across the way for his comments and his question. In connection with redistribution of income or old age pensions, I must point out that the hon. member did not really listen to my speech, since I did also refer to the unemployment insurance fund, with its $5 billion surplus, which the government is using to attack the least well off in our society. There is also the whole question of milk subsidies, which our Quebec farmers will no longer be getting.
What the province of Quebec wants is a fair redistribution of income, because that income affects people, the least advantaged segment of the population and the health of the people in our ridings,
Then there is the disappearance of universality in 2001, which will penalize those who have contributed to the pension plan all their lives.
In my opinion, the Martin budget makes a poor distribution of income.