Mr. Speaker, the hon. member for Chicoutimi is very familiar with the disaster that struck his region.
The Canadian government initially took action under the Canada-Quebec agreement dealing with disasters and their victims. This agreement worked very well, and the issue raised by the hon. member is indeed a very specific one.
In order to deal with damages not covered by the agreement, we implemented a temporary economic reconstruction program that was very successful. I should point out to the Conservative member that there are still funds in that program, which includes seven components.
It is a program which we would like to duplicate in the case of disasters such as the one created by the ice storm.