Jim Flaherty at the Finance Committee

There are many individuals with preferences. I have preferences too, but the idea is to move toward a consensus, if we can, among the governments in Canada, the federal government and the provinces. There's been some progress there. We know that there's unlikely to be unanimity on equalization and transfers, the fiscal balance issues, but we think that on behalf of Canadians we need to move toward as much consensus as we can obtain--