Mr. Speaker, if the minister is serious about wanting to save the Grand Prix without amending the Tobacco Act—and we agree with him on that—or spending any public funds, we have a suggestion for him.
Could the federal government, which spends 75% of the Canada Day budget in Quebec, set its obsession with visibility aside for two years only, and use the $5 million annual budget to establish the transitional fund and preserve the $80 million a year in spinoffs from the Montreal Grand Prix for another two years only?