Mr. Speaker, can the minister at least confirm to us that one of the hypotheses selected by the phoney committee regarding administrative decentralization is based on the principle set out by Pierre Elliott Trudeau two weeks ago, namely that no decentralization toward the provinces is possible without an equivalent transfer to the federal level, which would mean increased centralization of economic powers at Ottawa?
In the House of Commons on November 24th, 1995. See this statement in context.