We've been trying to make it work for the last thirty years and it hasn't. I think it's time for the federal government to realize that it has a role to play in post-secondary education, and that is in the area of research and infrastructure. It may be that you're not going to be able to get an agreement, but you're going to have to set a kind of standard--this is what we're going to contribute--and tag it. This is what it is for. Performance is a very difficult thing to measure. I could speak all day on that issue.
On October 6th, 2006. See this statement in context.