Madam Speaker, I am pleased to rise today to speak to the budget. Last year at this time, when the Minister of Finance brought down his budget, everyone was shocked at the federal government's arrogant disregard for provincial jurisdictions, particularly in the area of education.
Today, with this new budget, we can hardly believe our eyes as the Liberal government openly sets out to invade areas of jurisdiction that do not belong to it and to duplicate what is being done already in the provinces, simply to ease its conscience. That is what it is doing in this budget and that is what we condemn.
We can hardly believe our eyes, but that will not stop us from saying how disastrous this budget is for Quebec. The worst part about all this is that the money belongs to us and is being used in provincial areas of jurisdiction. This is unacceptable. First they went after education, and now they are going after health.