Mr. Speaker, first I want to congratulate the previous speaker for her excellent speech.
I also want to take this opportunity to remind the Liberal members opposite, who think that members of the Bloc Quebecois are here this morning to cry over spilled milk, that 74 Liberal members voted for the Constitution in this House in 1982, even if it was to the detriment of Quebec.
I also remind them that, in 1993, Quebeckers sent enough Bloc members to Ottawa to form the official opposition, even if we are sovereignist. The same thing happened again in 1997.
What I find the most surprising is that, in 1995, Canadians from Vancouver to Montreal came to tell us how much they love us. What I hear today is not exactly what those people told us. They came to tell us. They came to tell Quebec's members to go on because they needed us in Ottawa, since we are the only ones to speak for the unemployed and the have-nots and to promote social programs. We are the only ones to move motions like the one today to protect our health care system and ask the government to put money back into social transfers. We are the only ones to protect them regarding transfers for education.
I ask the Minister of Finance to rise and tell me what is wrong in what I said. The Minister of Finance and member for LaSalle—Émard is solely responsible for this situation, which has forced ten premiers to come to Ottawa today and get down on their knees to the Prime Minister to beg for money.
The question I want to ask the member—