QUEBEC - Premier Jean Charest has a grocery list of sorts, and he wants to know which federal leaders can fill his shopping cart.

Charest says he wants to see clear positions from all the parties on a whole slew of Quebec issues, starting with what he sees as the most obvious one – replacing the Champlain Bridge.

"I hope there's no one out there who's still grappling with this scientific question of whether we should build a new bridge," Charest told reporters Friday. "Because if they are, we are going to be really worried."

Another item on Charest's shopping list is defence spending, specifically federal contracts for Quebec firms to build warships and clear estimates of what Quebec's aerospace industry stands to gain if Canada buys new jets.

The there's the $2.2 billion refund from Ottawa for the harmonization of Quebec's sales tax, a high speed rail link from Quebec City to Windsor, Ont., wouldn't be bad either, and Charest says his list could even be longer than that.

"It would be tempting to speak on every issue," he said. "We could serve lunch and dinner, cocktails…"

However, the one federal party that has no problem with the size or cost of Charest's shopping list is the lone federal party he refuses to endorse – the Bloc Québécois.

Charest says he's addressing parties that could actually form a government.

"If it needs to be said out loud," he said, "I'm not going to propose that we vote for the Bloc."

Otherwise, Charest says he won't be throwing his support behind any of the federal parties, though his own former party made an announcement Thursday night that was not popular in Quebec.

Stephen Harper said a Conservative government would give a loan guarantee to build transmission lines from the Lower Churchill hydro-electric project in Newfoundland to other provinces.

Charest said all provincial utilities have always paid for their own lines, but he's not sure if anything will ever come of Harper's announcement anyway.

"It's a promise made in a political campaign," he said. "We'll just have to see where it leads."

With four weeks left in the federal election campaign and numerous promises still to come from the party leaders, Charest says he reserves the right to wade in any time to remind them just how long Quebec's shopping list is.