Mr. Speaker, all the powers the member mentioned are provincial powers. The only intervention by the federal government is to give money to the provinces in these areas. We use our spending power to give money in these areas. In the area of culture, for example, yes, the province of Quebec receives more than the proportion of population because it is where the milieu of the French culture is found. The reason a lot of the grants in relation to the French language are given to Quebec is that Quebec est le foyer de la langue française. We recognize that.
However, we do not have the constitutional power in those areas. The powers are with the provinces. We sometimes distribute money to give an equality of chances to the people. The reality in Canada is that we have parts of Canada where people are rich and parts of Canada where people are poor. It is the value of the Canadian mentality that the parts of Canada that have money help the people who need money in other parts of Canada.