I should confess, I'm a political scientist by background and I know the Constitution. I know that under the Constitution the primary responsibility is provincial. But over time, under the equalization payments and the health and...well, the transformed SHST, or whatever they were—the names change—the shift of money from the federal government to the provinces has contributed to education, social services, and the health care.
My view is that yes, that burden was downloaded in the 90s, and it was downloaded from the province to the municipality. In Ontario, the provincial government has said it is going to upload some of those costs. I haven't heard the federal government recently say anything about uploading back to the federal government. It is an issue, it is a problem, but I'm also very sensitive, especially coming from Quebec originally, about the constitutional division of responsibilities. That's a minefield.