Thank you, Madam Chair.
I think it's difficult to say if it's more or less. It's different. The accountability is very much different, and as we describe in the study, the mechanism is essentially a trust. It's essentially an unconditional one in that there are some administrative things the provinces need to do, but once the money leaves the federal coffers, it essentially goes without any conditions. As has been described here—and I think the official from Finance Canada described this as well quite well—the federal government is relying very much on this notion that the provinces, having received that money and having made some public declarations, have in recent years.... One thing that Finance Canada has insisted on is that the provinces explain what they're going to use the money for. So it's all built on the principle, on the hope that there will be enough of a dynamic within each of the respective provinces that accountability will follow.
So I think that's the nature of the accountability that so much of this is structured on.