Mr. Speaker, after expropriating Mirabel farmers' land, after doing all it could to close down Mirabel airport, now the federal government has made a unilateral decision to halve the taxes it pays to that municipality. The federal government has penalized the people of Mirabel enough. This arbitrary behaviour is unacceptable.
Does the federal government agree that the only right thing to do would be to return the property taxes to their previous level until the municipality's property assessment of the Mirabel facilities has been completed?