So my question follows. You probably have been doing it on a five- or seven-year cycle, and I think the province or the federal government--everyone tries to ensure that money is used.... No one is trying to say that money should not be used properly; we all want to do that. However, how do we make the mechanism better? The Auditor General says the government officials they interviewed opted for a conditional transfer to ensure the recipients use the fund for specific purposes. Yet we get unconditional and we go into sensitive negotiations with the provinces. I'm not saying provinces should not have it. I came from the provincial government; they should get the money.
Doing a review of these transfer payments, and wondering which method is a good method, what are some of the parameters you use? How do we ensure that what we sent the money for...? For example, the Canada-Ontario Infrastructure Works program was $25 billion, yet Toronto complains that the roads are terrible, that infrastructure is broken, and a lot of cities do it. How do we collectively work together to ensure that the mode we employ is the right mode?