Mr. Speaker, I understand now why the hon. member from the Reform Party is supporting Bob Rae and the NDP. They are both at 10 per cent in the polls. They have something in common at this time.
The hon. member once again professes that he wants to express himself in the spirit of co-operation. If he had read the green paper-I would suggest he now has a whole week to go home and look at it carefully-he would see that we have indicated very clearly various options under which we are proposing decentralization, not centralization.
We talk about a new block funding arrangement on social assistance with the provinces. We talk about evolving many areas of training. We talk about how we can work to disentangle from education. Then the provinces would have clear authority over their educational institutions. These are the kinds of things that we want to propose.
It is time for all governments to begin to think about how they can decentralize their bureaucracies, whether they are federal or provincial, and put more power in the hands of people and communities because that is where the real decisions should be made.