I would add that one of the other parts of this discussion, which I think shouldn't necessarily be left out—I know this sometimes gets lost in the shuffle of pointing fingers at different levels of government—is that in the end, provinces have the ability to undertake some of the interesting and I think very novel and creative innovations to social services that you talked about. They should be looked at, and in fact provinces have the ability to do that. They have taxing power. They have the jurisdiction to devise and improve and expand on programs that they currently have, and nothing prevents them from doing that.
From the federal government's point of view, it's important that provinces have the fiscal capacity to do that, that they be able to tax for the kinds of programs that are important to those provinces. I, for one—and I'm sure this view is shared by my colleagues—wouldn't want to see the federal government trying to impose its will on provinces.