In the last four years, the federal government has taken hundreds of millions of dollars from the economy of Quebec and the Atlantic provinces by closing military bases, reducing unemployment insurance benefits, slashing budgets for regional development, and reducing tax transfers for health, welfare and education.
The government, in a span of less than five years, has taken the equivalent of billions of yen from the economy of Quebec. 
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