You're getting a little ahead of me. There are various ways to address the issue of the vertical fiscal imbalance, but let's say we group them into two broad categories.
One involves Ottawa systematically increasing the number of conditional funding agreements. It is the federal government that tells the provinces they cannot legislate in a particular area of jurisdiction, but that they will not receive funding if they do not do as it wishes. However, over time, we could also have formalized and improved the payment of unconditional transfers. The Canada Health Transfer is not unconditional, but it is, let's say, less bad than many other new programs that have been instituted.
In your opinion, which direction has the federal government taken in recent years between these two options. Is this a problem or a solution?
