The fact nevertheless remains that the program exists. You are right to say that it's not equalization as a whole, but that it also concerns health and social programs. The Minister of Finance summed up the situation in the Quebec government's budget. It's in Schedule E. It's extremely well done, which you have no doubt noted. It's somewhat a summary of what the Government of Quebec expects from the Government of Canada in terms of payments. Again in the context of Part 6, since I want to respect the order, the Government of Quebec recalls that, in 2002-2003 and 2003-2004, according to the same variables, it received an overpayment of $2.38 billion. Since 2006, that amount has been recovered at a rate of $238 million a year. I therefore assume that it will go until 2016, that it is interest-free and that it is deducted at source, in other words that you are repaying yourselves out of the amounts subsequently transferred to that government.
My question is quite simple: why, in the case of Nova Scotia, New Brunswick, Manitoba, Prince Edward Island, Saskatchewan, Newfoundland and Labrador and Ontario are amounts paid not recovered under a program, whereas that funding is being recovered at a rate of $238 million a year in the case of Quebec? Does that mean that Quebec's experience is today enabling the other provinces to take advantage of this situation?