I'm certainly not going to be able to give you any sort of insight as to what's happening in terms of the multilateral discussions. We do know that the equalization program is going to have to be renewed in 2014-15. I certainly can't make any comment as to whether changes will happen between now and then because quite frankly it's not my responsibility to make that call. It will be up to the Minister of Finance if there are going to be changes to the program.
In terms of the fairness across the country, I think it is important to realize that we have to step back, first, to say the expert panel on equalization made the recommendation that natural resource revenues should be treated in a certain way and that crown corporations that are engaged in the generation of hydroelectricity are deriving their revenues from a natural resource, and that the transmission and distribution does not comprise the derivation of a revenue from a natural resource; it's part of the normal operation of the corporation.
But there are other parts. If you think about all the crown corporations that are engaged to some degree in the generation of hydroelectricity, it's more than just hydroelectricity that is considered “a natural resource”. There's also, for example, coal-fired electricity, which would not be something that's being derived from natural resources and yet could engender certain amounts of profit. Those profits are counted as a natural resource just as much as the generation of hydroelectricity. There are other parts of that puzzle that are there.
To truly get at something that's going to apply from coast to coast to coast, you'd have to be able to isolate just those revenues that are being derived from natural resources. I'm suggesting that is not an easy task to do, and that's one of the reasons why we're engaging in all of these multilateral discussions.