Mr. Speaker, I thought I would get some respite after the questions of the Bloc Quebecois.
Unfortunately, we are plunging again into constitutional questions. In these questions, I would like to indicate how much this government has indicated that it is ready to change. Not only have we talked about questions such as distinct society and right to veto; more importantly, we have indicated that we are ready to give to the provinces a large number of powers. We indicated this in the last budget.
In the last budget we showed clearly that we are ready to reduce the actual size of the federal government. We have reduced our own departments by close to 20 per cent. We said that we would recentre our responsibilities and let the level of government that is the most efficient fulfil their responsibilities. That is the greatest opening to change that one can see.