Mr. Speaker, I have listened to the very important speech by my hon. colleague from Outremont. He told us about the weakness of the Liberals’ principles as he sees them and as I also see them. The Liberals are in fact so weak at the moment that they are part of the Conservative-Liberal coalition where they are no more than a pale copy of the Conservative Party.
Our friend and colleague from Bourassa has just told us about the poor who will be suffering the effects of the crisis, and yet in the same breath he agreed to $1 billion for Quebec being slashed, something that will create more poor people and make their lives even more miserable. He also told us, on the other hand, about the weakness of the Conservative Party’s budget. That budget would not even exist if there had been no threat from a serious coalition. That threat was based solely on the real, specific and costed plan presented by the Bloc Québécois, the only real plan that was put forward before we started talking about a budget in Parliament.
My colleague is talking to us about the underlying principles of the NDP that everyone in Canada should be glad to know exist. But we too have principles, and we have something the NDP does not have: we have a plan. Where is the NDP’s plan?