You are absolutely right.
When we do the “Fiscal Sustainability Report”, part of the reason we do the provinces, the CPP and QPP, is to give Parliament the view of the total economy and what the situation is. We see that the federal government has room and the provinces don't have room, maybe because of the House expenditure increases. Certainly, they have an option to increase their taxes to pick up that tax room that was provided by the federal government, to take that up and deal with the ratio through higher taxes. Again, that's the choice that the provinces can make.
We also show in our report some simulation and some illustration of the different scenarios that one can consider for the health care transfer and the health care control. They are controlling the health care expenses that would actually, to some extent, reduce that pressure on the provinces. It's a minor adjustment, for example, to the health care transfer from the federal government. You can actually reduce the pressure on the provinces, but they do have that option. When we say that the fiscal gap at the provincial level is 1.7% of GDP, that gives them the option of either reducing their spending or increasing their taxes or a combination of the two to deal with that issue. Certainly, if they can control the health care cost to some extent—I mean, it's not possible to reduce it to nothing but obviously they can bring it down to some extent—then that will help them significantly.