Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Prime Minister.
Faced with Liberal militants who were worried about the survival of cultural and sports events, the Minister of Labour, who is also responsible for the Liberals' election campaign in Quebec, said on the weekend that after tobacco, his government might consider alcohol, to the horror of the President of the Treasury Board who took his arm and motioned him to stop talking. It is unbelievable how far removed this government is from reality.
Does the Prime Minister realize that by letting his Minister of Health, his Minister for Nova Scotia, a man who does not know anything about the economic situation in Quebec, go on like this, his government is turning on a sector that is in good shape in Quebec at the present time? Why is the minister attacking what works in Quebec? Is it because, in the final instance, the Prime Minister is upset when Quebec is doing well?