Mr. Speaker, when we talk about equalization and about fiscal imbalance, they are certainly not the same thing in my view. The member who asked a question earlier was not wrong when she said that a few years ago, Canada had a deficit.
Members will recall that to remedy that deficit situation, the Liberal government of the time slashed expenses. It cut back on transfers to provinces and forced provinces to tighten their belt and to rethink their funding. Thus the fiscal imbalance appeared over time, as Canada solved its own deficit problem at the expense of the provinces.
I would like to ask the member for Chicoutimi—Le Fjord to repeat to me, because I did not understand well, how much the problem of the fiscal imbalance costs his region.