Mr. Speaker, the Premier of Quebec repeated, “the fiscal imbalance has not been resolved—the federal government continues to swim in surpluses while Quebec can barely balance its budget”, in education, for example. Another perverse effect, according to Mr. Charest, is that the fiscal imbalance encourages Ottawa to intrude in Quebec's areas of jurisdiction.
As the Quebec premier and all of Quebec are asking, will the federal government use tomorrow's budget to recognize the fiscal imbalance and take concrete measures to correct what is “obvious to everyone but itself”.