Mr. Speaker, I am going to ask our colleague on the government side to read the conclusions of the Clair commission. This commission is not the Bloc Quebecois or the government. The federal government is assessed as follows: “For every dollar spent by the Government of Quebec, 14 cents comes from the federal government, no more, no less”. When our colleague suggests that it is 30 cents, I respectfully submit he is out to lunch.
Second, as concerns research and development, with the fifty centres belonging to the federal government on the Ontario side—well, they are in the greater Outaouais-Ontario region, they are not on the Outaouais side, but on the Ottawa side—the figures given me are fairly dramatic. They date from 1999 and show that Quebec receives only 14.4% of the jobs in R and D.
Is our fellow member asking us to be satisfied with that? Is he asking us to keep a provincial and colonial mentality? If that is so, I say that on this side of the House we will never agree to that.