Mr. Speaker, the answer I am being given is unbelievable.
What I am saying to the minister is that a ship going to Chicago, U.S.A.-it is not in this country, it is in the U.S.-will not pay. Our jobs are being exported to the U.S. Yesterday those in charge of metropolitan Montreal, speaking on its behalf, were asking what the ministers, the Liberal members for Quebec, were waiting for before criticizing this policy.
The minister speaks of integrity, equity. He is also proposing that part of the costs that ought to be borne by Newfoundland, and all of the costs paid by the northern ports, including Churchill, Manitoba, be assumed by the other regions. How then can the minister justify the fact that the user pay principle is not applied in these two cases, unless it is to favour those two regions? I would point out to you that, just by chance, one of the two is Newfoundland, the minister's own province.