Mr. Speaker, I am grateful to my colleague for Longueuil for his question. I would, however, remind him that I am the member for Anjou-Rivière-des-Prairies and not for Saint-Léonard-Rivière-des-Prairies.
My colleague noted that, quite recently, polls were giving us 15 per cent credibility. I think, in the past week, we must have dropped to five per cent. That is a partial answer to my colleague's question.
In fact, the government made all sorts of commitments before its election, stentorian commitments shouted from the rooftops-especially the Prime Minister and his promise to tear up the free trade agreement. The free trade agreement is in effect today, and most of the time the government is not very successful at defending the rights of Canadians. More often than not, despite the fact that our rights have merit, we lose to the Americans.
The government and, in particular, the Prime Minister, had promised to eliminate the GST. We are in fact reinforcing it and right off we will be spending $1 billion for three provinces alone, in order to put a process of harmonization, which will never work, into effect.
We also remember that the government and the Prime Minister himself promised distinct society recognition. It will never happen. We know very well. Even the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs, present here today, had promised to use every means possible to obtain this recognition. He is the same man who said a few months ago, before this promise was made, that the more Quebecers were made to suffer, the more the sovereignist option would diminish. He said that in Toronto. So here we have a member from Quebec, paid by Quebecers to defend their interests, who comes to Ottawa to make Quebec suffer. This says a mouthful about transparency.