Mr. Speaker, it is incumbent upon everybody involved in looking at the whole need to restructure our social framework, including the way to provide for higher education, to deal with the facts. The facts are that over the next several years the revenue going to the provinces substantially increases, not decreases, as a result of the growth in revenue coming from the tax points.
When certain provincial ministers refused to acknowledge both that fact and their responsibility to ensure that those increased revenues were in fact turned over and transferred for investment in higher education, it does deserve some rebuttal to show that responsibility must reside where it is clearly placed on provincial ministers to make sure they spend the money the federal government transfers to them for the betterment of higher education.