Thank you, Ma'am.
To the Treasury Board Secretariat, I just want to go back again to the use of conditional versus unconditional transfers. Obviously the provincial and territorial governments would all prefer the unconditional transfers to use the funds according to their own priorities and, as you mentioned earlier, to their own needs. You demonstrated that they believe they know best what their needs are--and they're not obliged to report how they spent the transferred moneys or what effect, if any, these had.
Why would the federal government not want the accountability and transparency that the conditional transfers would require? Do you feel there is a trend towards negotiating more unconditional or conditional transfers?