Mr. Speaker, as the hon. member knows, in the green book we present several options. One is to continue with the existing status quo, a formula that was put in place by a government of which he was a member which reduced transfer
payments to Quebec alone of a quarter of a billion dollars. He was a member of that government. I know the hon. member is well versed in this matter, and that is one of the options.
Another option we are presenting is a way of finding a formula that would add an additional $10 billion to the funding of higher education, $10 billion that would go for funding laboratories and libraries and increased accessibility.