Mr. Speaker, first, I have some questions for my hon. colleague from Saint-Jean.
At the beginning of his speech, he said he was surprised by the Conservatives' vaudeville act. He responded to all these frankly shameful smears by the Conservatives against the Bloc Québécois.
First of all, can my hon. colleague say if all these cheap and ridiculous criticisms we have heard from the Conservatives about the Bloc Québécois are not really an attempt to conceal the weakness of their arguments when it comes to the federal spending power?
Second, I would like to hear what my hon. colleague from Saint-Jean has to say about the speech given by the Prime Minister on December 19, 2005, in Quebec City, a speech that, I would say, is full of broken election promises.
The Prime Minister made many election promises that day. One was this:
We will monitor federal spending power, which has been so abused by the federal Liberals. This outrageous spending power gave rise to domineering and paternalistic federalism—
I would like to hear my colleague's comments on this.