Mr. Speaker, Quebec's economic development minister, Raymond Bachand, has given a number of interviews in which he condemns his federal counterpart's decision to stop funding non-profit economic development organizations. In an interview on the program Les coulisses du pouvoir, Mr. Bachand stated: “This is a decision the minister made all on his own. It was not something recommended by his officials or his colleagues. It is an ideological decision.”
Does the Prime Minister realize that his Minister of the Economic Development Agency of Canada for the Regions of Quebec is doing nothing less than destroying an important component of economic development in Quebec for purely ideological reasons?