Mr. Speaker, before discussing the ways and means motion on the previous budget, I would like to take a minute to thank some people from the new riding of Repentigny.
You referred to me as the member for Terrebonne but, after June 2, that is after the next election, the Speaker who will be in the Chair, and I hope it will be you, will have to refer to me, assuming I am re-elected-but I am not overly concerned about this, since things are going very well in our riding-as the member for Repentigny, the first one to represent this new riding.
In a few years, if things go well, I will have become the first and last member for Repentigny, because that riding will not have a very long life. It will go through only three stages: first, the election of the Bloc Quebecois; second, the election of the Parti Quebecois; and third, the holding of a successful referendum. It will be a tie-breaker after the dead heat we had the last time. Therefore, the riding of Repentigny will exist for only a few years.
My nomination meeting was held yesterday evening, in Charlemagne, one of the municipalities in that beautiful riding. On that occasion, people expressed their confidence in me by agreeing to let me represent them at the next election, as a Bloc Quebecois member. Therefore, I sincerely thank the people of Repentigny, Charlemagne, Lachenaie, Mascouche and La Plaine, for their support in the past three and a half years, and for their renewed support last night in Charlemagne. Over 150 people were in attendance and showed they are eager to get on with the next election campaign.