Mr. Chairman, I am somewhat disappointed in the parliamentary secretary not being on top of the news. First, he should know that, following an agreement with the Collège des médecins, enrollments in Quebec's medical schools has increased significantly.
Second, I said that if the tax imbalance issue were solved, Quebec would be able to hire an additional 3,000 doctors and 5,000 nurses. That is what I said. The parliamentary secretary and the minister cannot deny that.
Getting back to these figures, the Séguin commission used a study from the Conference Board of Canada, which is definitely not a haven for separatists, nor is it a PQ office or a branch of the Mouvement national des Québécoises et des Québécois. It is a completely independent organization with a federalist tendency, and it makes no bones about it.
The fact is that the needs are glaring and that the shortfall, the tax imbalance is of the order of $50 million per week, or $2 billion annually, which means $24 million for the riding of Charlesbourg—Jacques-Cartier. These are concrete figures.
And how many problems could have been solved by simply settling the tax imbalance issue?