Okay, then no.
There are five minutes remaining for the Liberals, which is me. My questions flow quite nicely from what was just stated.
My first question is for Mr. Wudrick. I completely disagree with the notion that this is a jurisdictional issue, let alone a housekeeping issue, because until recently the government's case against refugee health care and also social welfare was phrased in terms of “bogus refugees” and “gold-plated health care”. Then for whatever reason they softened the approach and they made it a pure issue of provincial jurisdiction; the provinces should have control. This was a recent change.
But—and this is my central point—I asked the officials and only one province was consulted, Ontario, and that province said it didn't want this law. The nine other provinces were not consulted.
I can understand giving jurisdiction to provinces if provinces are clamouring for it, but it's the opposite; nine provinces said nothing and one big province said they didn't want it. Under those circumstances why would you think it a good move, given all the other things parliamentarians could do to use up time, to give jurisdiction to provinces that don't want it?