Minister, I know that since the budget you've spent a lot of time in southern Ontario making a number of announcements and awarding a number of grants.
I spent the week after the budget in my home province of Alberta, and optimism is not one of the words that I would use to describe the feeling of Albertans. In fact, many Albertans whom I spoke to are downright angry about the fact that Alberta still sends way more money east to Ottawa than comes back in the way of transfer payments. They said to me that they got a paltry $30 million while at the same time, 10 times that amount went to Bombardier.
How would you respond to those Albertans?