The President of the Treasury Board is using figures from the year when the deficit reached $45 billion. These figures are no longer valid.
We pay taxes to Ottawa. It is our money that is being used when there is a crisis in western Canada's agricultural sector. We also pay when there is flooding in Winnipeg. It is not just in Quebec. This is a kind of insurance policy: one year we benefit from it, while in another year we put money into the fund. But it is our taxes. I have no problem.
As far as I am concerned, there is no such thing as federal or provincial money. There is only taxpayers' money.