The rationale behind it is that we use a third party trust mechanism and then the provinces access the trust moneys for the purposes the trusts are designed for, one being the public transit trust, which is already being used to acquire rolling stock, which is important and expensive. In particular, environmentally friendly rolling stock is quite expensive in Canada. Also, the affordable housing trust is designed to try to alleviate housing needs of low-income people in Canada. That's very important in an increasingly urban society in our larger cities.
On November 9th, 2006. See this statement in context.