Mr. Speaker, we recently learned that the Minister of Finance was going to campaign door-to-door to help out Jean Charest during the next election campaign in Quebec.
That is all very fine and well, but the Minister of Finance probably now feels he must explain to the public why the same Quebeckers he advised not to elect a Charest government at the federal level last year should now elect one today. Unless the answer can be found on last Monday's political satire program La fin du monde est à 7 heures .
That was how we found out the Liberal Party of Quebec is looking for greenery to decorate its convention hall. The Liberal Party of Quebec even paid for the travel and meals of so-called supporters willing to cheer loudly for Mr. Charest in front of the television cameras. Perhaps the Minister of Finance would like his own Liberalmobile with unlimited mileage to make the trip to Old Orchard Beach to meet the production team of La fin du monde , which is enjoying the Liberal Party's generosity.
The only distressing thing for the minister in all this is that the Liberal Party of Quebec now seems to prefer canvassing with Mike Harris's Conservatives, rather than with members of the federal Liberal Party.