Madam Speaker, in its initial version, the bill would have been a huge encroachment on Quebec’s jurisdictions.
The Bloc Québécois gave them the benefit of the doubt and thought it might have been a mistake. We therefore proposed amendments to make adjustments and achieve a certain level of asymmetry in the bill. However, we soon realized that it was not a mistake, because the Liberals blocked our proposals to make the bill more fair to Quebec.
Is this simply a prelude to the budget and a teaser of intrusive budgetary measures we are seeing?