Mr. Speaker, in the past the federal government invested $66 billion in gas and oil in Alberta and Newfoundland, and $6 billion in the nuclear industry in Ontario. It might be worth pointing out that Quebec paid for 25% of these investments while receiving nothing for the development of its hydroelectric system.
Are we to take it from the minister's message that all this should be forgotten, that those who received no subsidies in the past have not only to pay, but to pay twice as much?