If the Parti Quebecois has its way the Canadian Forces will one day be giving an independent Quebec several jet fighter planes.
That's one of the topics being discussed as the party caucus meets in Rimouski.
Party leader Pierre Karl Peladeau said that the party is preparing concrete plans for a separate country, and the first step would be the creation of a Quebec Research Institute that would look at the transition from being a province to a country.
Peladeau said the Institute would examine ways to divide federal assets, including military material.
Bloc Quebecois leader Gilles Duceppe is also at the caucus meeting, and he said the Bloc has discussed dividing federal assets before.
He said a future independent Quebec should also be entitled to a share of maritime assets, such as ports and Coast Guard vessels.
"We published a paper on maritime strategy in 2010. Nothing new. We've been discussing that, all the federal powers because we're in Ottawa. We're not discussing education over there, neither health," said Duceppe.
What blind trust?
Meanwhile Peladeau acknowledged that he is still the owner and direct controller of the majority of shares in Quebecor.
The night he was selected as the leader of the PQ in May, Peladeau said he would be visiting his lawyer's office the very next day to put his shares into what he called a 'blind trust'.
Three months later Peladeau is still controlling his shares because his lawyers don't seem to work over the summer.
"First of all it's the summer. Summer, I guess that you took vacation, and there's a lot of people also that took vacations," said Peladeau.
"It's a complicated matter, I mentioned that because it's a public company. We want to make sure that there's no prejudice at all that will be created because of the creation of the blind trust."
Critics have said what Peladeau intends to create will not qualify as a blind trust because he would leave instructions that his shares in the province's largest media empire would never be sold.
