Through you, Madam Speaker, I would rather not get involved in partisanship. However, I cannot help but notice something.
The Liberals had been elected in October. The Prime Minister refused to summon Parliament before January because he had to attend NATO meetings. When the current Prime Minister, who was finance minister at the time, brought down his first budget at the end of February, something was done with no warning whatsoever. Without conducting any type of negotiation with its partners in the federation, the federal government cut transfer payments to such an extent that the public finances of the various provinces became destabilized.
When Quebec achieves sovereignty, we will have just one Parliament. Quebeckers—