Okay, let's talk fast.
The number one issue is education. Mr. Gillett and Mr. Charlebois, you both spoke about the dedicated transfer, which is a concept that I think has a lot of support and that I support in general, but I have a couple of issues with it.
You talked about the reduction in investment in post-secondary education. The federal contribution towards post-secondary investment has stayed the same over the past 10 years. The contribution through the CST has gone down. When the budget got fixed up in the late 1990s, investment in research and directly to students through millennium scholarships, learning bonds, and Canada access grants made up the difference.
My concern about the dedicated transfer is this. If you go back to the pre-1995 percentage of federal contribution, you still have the millennium scholarship out here; you still have learning bonds, which are being paid for federally; and you have all the investments in research, which have transformed Canada and reversed the brain drain. My concern is that the government won't do both things. They won't go back to the original funding of post-secondary, plus keep the billions of dollars that are being invested directly to universities and directly to students.
If the dedicated transfer meant losing the millennium scholarship, Canada access grants, and possibly nationally funded research, would you still support the dedicated transfer?