Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance.
Yesterday, in response to my question on the compensation owed to Quebec for harmonizing the QST with the GST, the minister finally admitted that the compensation formula used is not designed to provide harmonization assistance but rather assistance to the Atlantic region. This clearly shows that his bad decision is politically untenable.
How can the Minister of Finance tell us today that he has found nothing better to do, to provide assistance to the Atlantic prov-
inces, than to dig into the pockets of Quebec taxpayers to subsidize the maritimes and help them better raid Quebec businesses?