Yes, I think it's only the federal government that has the position of leadership, that can look to other levels of government, whether it be the municipalities or the provinces, and look at all those programs together. They're all in silos and they all stick to their own knitting.
It sounds very good on the one hand, but when you have taxation at the federal and provincial levels that combines benefit clawbacks that reduce every dollar that people get—especially from earnings, thinking of the discussion this morning, that result in clawbacks and taxes of over a dollar on a dollar—something is wrong; something is broken. I think it's only the federal government that can actually convene all of the provinces and municipalities and those various programs that do that.
I'll give a plug to the late Mr. Flaherty, who made sure by talking to the provinces that the RDSP, the registered disability savings plan, was not clawed back by other social assistance programs. The same is true of the working income tax benefit that was brought in in 2007, so you see good examples where care was really taken to do this. For those who believe that the federal government can't have influence, there are two particular, pungent examples of where the federal government did lean on the provinces and made sure that those clawbacks did not take place.