Ms. Aman, I just want to tell you that we're going to release figures today that show that in fact big parts of Ontario are actually severely underfunded. The very places that are being cut have been receiving less money than other parts of the country all along.
I hate to tell the person from Alberta, who's rightfully saying we got a little bit more money.... What happened in a number of parts of Ontario is the money was promised before the last election, and now it's being taken away from a lot of those new services that are being folded up, unfortunately. I wanted to make that point really strongly.
They're saying this should be based on landings. Now I know there's a big problem with just using landings, but if you try to find a correlation between the landings across the country and the cuts that are taking place, it doesn't exist. So I just want you to be assured that this kind of deception, frankly, on the part of the government, or this kind of effort to try to get around the facts is not going to survive. There is going to be a public airing of these numbers, the very things that the government has tried to hang it's hook on. They're basically saying that there is an excess capacity in Ontario and therefore we can take money out.
They're trying to set up a fight with other parts of the country for dollars that are being cut: $53 million is leaving for good, for every $1 that's being redistributed. So this isn't about rebalancing; it's a lot of money leaving the system.
It's really important, I think, because I know you must really feel that you are in a difficult position. You're forced to justify yourself after years of serving—you see the people every day—but I want you to know that there's a political thing at work here, a political allocation.