Mr. Speaker, flexible federalism in recent years has worked very well through negotiations with the various provinces. Specifically, for example, thanks to our action plans with nine provinces in Canada, I have signed-and I will leave it to them to guess which province has not signed-we have reached 64 agreements with the provinces,
including a dozen with Quebec, before the election of the Parti Quebecois, but afterwards, zip.
So, in terms of negotiations, clearly we resolve most of our problems through negotiation. As for this particular problem, Ms. Beaudoin has already come and presented her problem. In our opinion, there is nothing owing, nothing to pay. The regulations are clear: the Province of Quebec, in this case, is not entitled to payment, and we have told Quebec that we were prepared to let it go to court, that we would provide whatever assistance it needed to go to court and that it should get a decision from a court of law. This is the normal process.