Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Thank you to all of our witnesses for appearing today. It's greatly appreciated.
I will direct most of my questions to Mr. Goldberg. I'm very intrigued by his comments on entanglement, and I will get there, but I want to start by quoting from Jack Mintz's Financial Post article and asking a question about that. Mr. Mintz writes, “At one stage all resource revenues were included in the formula but when that meant Ontario would become a 'have not' province only half of resource revenues were counted.”
My first question is, would he agree with Mr. Mintz's characterization? Second, does he believe that the changing of formulas with respect to equalization is helpful or not helpful to national unity?