Mr. Speaker, our colleague no doubt wishes to remind the House that the Canada social transfer, as it now stands, takes two forms—cash payments and tax points.
I believe that he, like other stakeholders, has worked out that it would be more advantageous to receive tax points, given deflation and real value.
I know that our colleague, whose primary motivation has always been to defend Quebec's interests, which he considers non-negotiable, has put a great deal of effort in recent weeks into the argument that Quebec should collect all its taxes. That is a characteristic of sovereignty, or one step towards sovereignty.
I have no hesitation in giving him my support and I thank him for publicly pushing this idea, which is as generous as it is enlightened.