Thank you.
Mr. deGroot-Maggetti, you are suggesting splitting the Canada Social Transfer between post-secondary education and income support programs, including social assistance.
As regards the CST, should you not be suggesting that rather than being prorated based on population, as is currently the case, these programs should be based on need? For instance, about 30 per cent of the different poverty levels in Canada are in Quebec, but it only receives 23 per cent of the CST, given that the transfer is based on population.
Should we not go back to the system that prevailed when the Canada Assistance Plan was in effect? There the federal government contributed one dollar for every dollar invested by a province.