Some hon. members will most certainly recall, and I will take it upon myself to remind the others, that in 1998 when the Minister of Finance released his budget, we in the Bloc Quebecois had some years previously encouraged the government to include certain measures that were included in that budget.
Certains se rappelleront très certainement, et je me ferai un devoir de le rappeler à d'autres, qu'en 1998, lorsque le ministre des Finances a rendu son budget public, plusieurs années auparavant, nous, du Bloc québécois, avions encouragé le gouvernement à inclure certaines mesures qui se retrouvaient dans ce budget.