Mr. Speaker, over the past 30 years, the federal government has made administrative errors and made overpayments of several billion dollars to four Canadian provinces, particularly Ontario.
The provinces do not have to pay for this federal mistake and this is why those that did not benefit from the error are asking Ottawa for a compensation equal to the overpayments received by Ontario.
Will the Minister of Finance follow up on this and compensate Quebec and the provinces that did not benefit from such overpayments, by taking into account equalization and the federal miscalculation, which amounts to $210 per capita? This would mean an amount of $1.4 billion for Quebec.