Mr. Speaker, I thought earlier that our colleague was talking about something that had been left dangling, but I will let him clarify his thoughts on this, since this is an issue that, as you know, may interest you personally.
First of all, I want to congratulate our colleague for his remarkable erudition. Members will have noticed that he is very interested in the work of the Séguin commission on the issue of imbalance. This is a commission that was established by the Quebec government and chaired by a former Liberal minister. So this is not a partisan issue. But I would like to ask two questions of my colleague.
Would my colleague, in a historical perspective on which he knows quite well the ins and outs, be prepared to state in the House that, at this point, following an historical measure taken during the second world war, the federal government has invaded illegally, in a rather ultra vires manner, the field of personal income tax, as mentioned by our colleague from Saint-Hyacinthe—Bagot?
Second, does he think that the federal government should restore health transfer payments to their 1993-94 level?