Madam Speaker, I have read the budget, and I can even tell my hon. colleague the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance that I took part in the lock-up. Therefore, I was shocked before everybody else to see that this budget contained absolutely nothing.
The member opposite is forgetting one thing: all these numbers he is throwing around—he is like the finance minister, he is quoting so many different numbers, it is tough to follow; what he is saying is always somewhat obscure; the numbers have already changed over the past two days—are for five years.
I said at the beginning of my speech that this government is suffering from a serious case of procrastination; it is totally unable to make a decision in the year 2000, it has to wait until 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004.
As I was reading the budget, I realized that, by acting in an opportunistic and election-minded way, the government was penalizing the Quebec people as a whole. They will get what is coming to them, we will kick them out once again during the next election.