Mr. Speaker, I thank my colleague for his question. The advantage would be the resulting budgetary independence.
I believe that the purpose of our political existence is to achieve political independence for Quebeckers as quickly as possible. This week's budget is a case in point: it has allowed Quebec sovereignists to score several points and to demonstrate what we wanted to contribute.
First, there is our incredible dependence on the federal state. When the tabling of a federal budget becomes an issue in a provincial election, there is a problem with the federation. Primarily it is a sign of the dependence of this province on the choices made by the central government.
The budget benefits sovereignists in another way. With funds provided to the next government formed by André Boisclair's Parti Québécois, we can show Quebeckers what they will be able to do when they control their own taxes and they make their own budget decisions. The effect is similar to that of the Club Med advertising: 15 seconds of Club Med, could you imagine a week? With one, two or three billion dollars in taxes recovered, we can then suggest to Quebeckers that they imagine what it will be like when we recover $41 billion in taxes.