Mr. Speaker, as the Bloc Quebecois had expected, the federal government has once again underestimated the surplus, which is now $14.8 billion this year, although last October the Minister of Finance had forecast a surplus of only $4 billion, a difference of $10 billion.
Is the Minister of Finance not using this difference as a reason to deny the existence of a fiscal imbalance and an excuse to infringe upon areas of Quebec's jurisdiction, particularly education, as he stated yesterday evening?