Mr. Speaker, very briefly, I would like to ask the President of Treasury Board, since he is the one to handle the cabinet's big budget, if he does not sometimes have to act like a bad government to be able to distribute the money. I would like to give the example of the commercial investment credit.
A number of farmers from the vast Eastern Townships region have complained to my office-justifiably, I think-that, two or three years later, the revenue department wants to recover, with heavy interest charges, the 10 per cent, the credit to which they were entitled and which ended on January 1, 1994, which they used in good faith for purchases prior to that date.
As the President of Treasury Board, how could he explain that these directives have gone solely to the Sherbrooke regional office?