Mr. Speaker, I want to thank and congratulate my colleague from Joliette for his speech. I have two little questions for him.
First, he reminded us of the Prime Minister's comments about the “choice” Quebeckers should make, that according to him, they should choose a federalist party. Does my colleague agree that this very serious? The Prime Minister is quite simply questioning the legitimate choice of a population, a nation, the nation of Quebec.
My second question is similar to the question already raised by the hon. member for Alfred-Pellan. I will ask it in the following way. I would like to ask my colleague from Joliette whether he thinks Quebec is really in the process of being swindled for the second time, if not the third. The current government keeps giving rather remarkable tax breaks—to oil companies for example—and Quebec, as my colleague just mentioned, is penalized. With this formula option, this calculation of 50% of revenues, it is obviously being penalized on that front as well. As far as I am concerned, we can never say enough about the fact that Quebec is being swindled.