This is most definitely something that will be distasteful to people in Ontario, and you can appreciate how distasteful the current tax structure is to people in Newfoundland and Labrador. If we look at the cost of delivering services and at the fact that there is a cost, for example, to deliver services in rural Newfoundland, it costs money to do it. If we look at what is generally a small population, in a province like Newfoundland and Labrador, we have to either go with a resettlement program to move them all to the bigger cities, or acknowledge up front that there is an enhanced cost to deliver those services outside of the major centres.
On October 23rd, 2006. See this statement in context.