Madam Speaker, I hear the Bloc Quebecois members tell us they are the purest of the pure, while we are supposed to be a party of thieves. This is completely unparliamentary.
This shows a lack of respect for the people defending the interests of Quebec just as vigorously as the people from the Bloc. But they are the good Quebecers. People like me, who live in Quebec, whose children are there, who contribute to Quebec—I myself spent nine years in the National Assembly—we are bad Quebecers.
Listen to the member for Hochelaga—Maisonneuve telling us how he needs another $500 million or $1 billion for hospitals. That takes a heck of a lot of gall. He is talking about $500 million, which represents one quarter of the budget for hospitals in Quebec. And then we have Mr. Landry, the great PQ bagman, who busts his britches daily, and who left $841 million sitting in a bank, not in Quebec, but in Toronto, in the Toronto Dominion Bank.
So, if $500 million represents one quarter of the budget for hospitals, $841 million, according to my calculations, represents 42% of the budget.
Quebec nurses went out on strike. They were out in the streets for weeks saying “We are badly paid, the equipment is out of date”—