Quebec is in midst of an election campaign. The present premier has emphasized that he would use that amount to cut taxes. For the moment, we aren't very satisfied with what the premier intends to do with the $800 million that Quebec has just received.
When you talk about transfers, you're talking about tax transfers. The purpose of the coalition that we established with the rest of Canada on child care services, when Mr. Harper proposed the $1,200 amount, was precisely to ask the federal government to give all provinces the necessary financial means and resources, through the transfer, to provide child care services to families, education, transportation, housing and everything the provinces are able to offer their populations as a whole, that is elderly women, fathers and so on.
That should be done in the same way as parental insurance. It has been shown that, since the creation of the Quebec Parental Insurance Plan, which was transferred to Quebec, there has been a significant observed increase in the birth rate. This direct support for families shows that governments support families more. That enables each of the provinces to use its own resources, but, for that purpose, they have to receive money from the federal government.