I made an announcement in Winnipeg alongside the Premier of Manitoba, who is not really a Conservative. A reporter asked him if all that was being announced simply amounted to the recycling of old programs, etc. His response was that he had never received a single dollar from previous governments. Those were his comments.
I also made an announcement the other day in the company of another premier, and he said the same thing, in other words that he was very happy because he had never received anything whatsoever from the federal government.
This served to underscore this Government's commitment to ensuring that there will be a much more open federalism in areas of shared jurisdiction between the federal government and the provinces. This is working in Manitoba, in Quebec, everywhere. This is working very well in my province. In fact, premier McGuinty was very pleased to be getting all of this money.