Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Finance is spreading untruths to deny the existence of fiscal imbalance in Canada. To support his erroneous argument, he has gone so far as to distort the conclusions of the conference board. I quote the conference board, and it is very clear, “the dynamics in place for each level of government will unquestionably create a problem of fiscal imbalance”.
That is what the conference board says.
Is the Minister of Finance prepared to be more forthcoming and recognize, as the conference board has done, that a significant fiscal imbalance exists, to the detriment of Quebec and the provinces?