Mr. Speaker, with all due respect to my colleague, I would like to correct three things he has just said.
First, I never said anything to insult the Minister of Finance. I criticized his budget policy because I consider it savage. If anyone has been insulted in the past four years, it is the poor families in Canada, the sick and the students, who have suffered from the savage cuts of the Minister of Finance and his government.
Second, I would like him to know that, in this House, we are elected to represent all the people in our riding and all the people of Quebec, be they federalist or separatist.
Whatever my colleague may think, and I will close on this point, the Bloc Quebecois represents 60 per cent of Quebec ridings. It therefore represents a majority of Quebecers. Furthermore, we will be here in the coming years to remind him of the past and present realities of Quebec and of its aspirations. That may be distressing, but that's life.