Madam Speaker, I thank the parliamentary secretary for his speech, but he is not focusing on the problem.
For the Bloc Québécois, the problem is not the investment in infrastructure, since that is where money should be invested. The problem is that the federal government is imposing its criteria on Quebec and the provinces. For example, with regard to airports, why can it decide to build an airport in the middle of a corn field? It can do so because it is the federal level that imposes its criteria. That is just one example, but we could give several more.
I would like to ask the parliamentary secretary why it is so difficult to agree to the Bloc's request that the government provide a lump-sum transfer and let Quebec allocate the money.