Finance committee  Yes, most people who pay taxes are middle class, mainly in the cities. We really must support these cities where it's said that housing is unlivable. No one seems to stop at anything that's catastrophic here in Quebec City. Half the city should be rebuilt. In 1957, the Laplante Report stated that the “hovels should be regilded.”

Finance committee  Affordable housing currently...

Finance committee  I'm going to read you an excerpt from the article by Claude Castonguay: Prime Minister Harper has declared that there will be no solution to the problem of fiscal imbalance until there is a consensus among the provinces. He might as well have said he was indefinitely postponing a solution to the question.

Finance committee  I am President of the Association des propriétaires de Québec, which has been in existence since 1933. It was founded in 1933, during the great crisis from 1929 to 1939. Small- and medium-size businesses could, without subsidies, be created or consolidated by citizen patrons or parents.