Mr. Speaker, Quebec's environment minister has outrageously said “Quebecers will not finance the economic development of western Canada”. Westerners have been financing the economic development of Quebec for 40 years, from equalization payments, to the CF-18 contract, to slush funds in Quebec. If Alberta is forced to pay for Kyoto, there will not be any money for Ottawa to extract from us.
Will the federal government commit that it will not ratify Kyoto to buy Quebec votes with western tax dollars?