Budget Implementation Act, 1994  Mr. Speaker, I would simply like to say that as for the House's cooperation, if the government keeps on moving such motions without any warning, the Official Opposition will put an end to the exceptional cooperation it has offered up till now. We had an understanding concerning that bill; we would discuss it until 7.10 p.m. in accordance with the Standing Orders.

Budget Implementation Act, 1994  Mr. Speaker, during the five minutes I have left, I would like to make a few comments on the speech by the member who just spoke. It is rather surprising to hear him make such remarks when we know what he used to say when he was in the opposition. How dare he come and tell us with a straight face that unemployment has dropped when it has only fallen by one point and only because unemployed workers are now on social assistance.

Budget Implementation Act, 1994  Mr. Speaker, I would have a comment to make on the extremely well-thought-out speech by the hon. member who just spoke. At the beginning of his speech, he talked about subsidies which should be paid directly to the farmers instead of to the railway to ship wheat, for example, from the West to the East.

Quebec Sovereignty  Mr. Speaker, yesterday the NDP member for Kamloops stated that his friends in Quebec should shut up and stop talking about sovereignty because that implies the destruction of Canada and makes international lending agencies uneasy. Such a statement calls for an indignant reaction.

Rights Of Francophones  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage. According to many experts, the income gap between anglophones and francophones in every province except Quebec is due in large part to the educational difficulties encountered by francophones. This opinion is shared by the Liberal member for Ottawa-Vanier who told the TVA television network yesterday: "We asked for the management of our own schools because it goes hand in hand with regular management.

Rights Of Francophones  Mr. Speaker, I hope that if the minister believes in rights and freedoms, he also believes that Supreme Court decisions should be implemented, but unfortunately they are not. Does the minister admit that the federal government miserably failed to ensure that francophone and Acadian communities in Canada manage their own schools, and to give them enough money to have proper schools, not like those in Kingston?

Supply  I came in late, Mr. Speaker, so I did not get to vote. I just wanted to say that I would have voted along with the representatives of the loyal opposition. If ever results were to be applied in reverse, I would like to be counted in.

La Francophonie  Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Canadian Heritage. We are in the middle of Francophonie Week and the government keeps making high-sounding statements about the importance of the French fact and its place in the world, but in reality its policies in support of Canada's French-speaking people are much less generous.

Semaine Nationale De La Francophonie  Mr. Speaker, this week is the Semaine nationale de la Francophonie, which provides francophones all over the world an opportunity to stop and think of the role played by the French language in the development of our communities. This week-long event aimed at making this international forum know will allow us this year to emphasize the key role of Quebec within la Francophonie in North America.

Party Fundraising  Point of order, Mr. Speaker.

Party Fundraising  Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has just suggested that people from Ontario are dishonest. People from Ontario are not dishonest. They are not cheats.

Party Fundraising  Nobody said that.

Party Fundraising  Qui te paie pour parler comme ça?

Party Fundraising  moved: That, in the opinion of this House, the government should bring in legislation limiting solely to individuals the right to donate to a federal political party, and restricting such donations to a maximum of $5,000 a year.

Borrowing Authority Act, 1994-95  Mr. Speaker, I rise on a point of order. This is about the term the hon. member just used, and it is not the first time the hon. member referred to betrayal or mentioned the fact that we have no democratic mandate, or have no right to sit in this House because we are members of the Bloc Quebecois.