Mr. Speaker, the member has just shown that information gets distorted when it goes from one side of the House to the other. There is a psychological barrier in the House, and the federal Liberals are unable to understand how unfair they have been to Quebec in the last budget.
The budget contained $1 billion in health transfer payments for Ontario as opposed to only $150 million for Quebec. Equalization payments were withheld for three years. With equalization, normally, if the federal government were fair and spread its research and development dollars around equitably, not only would we not have received a cheque, we would have given one to other provinces.
This government is reducing Quebec to poverty, and I hope that the members opposite, including Jean Chrétien's valiant Liberals, will realize it.