Mr. Speaker, as the Minister of Finance has already explained, one of the great advantages of the new transfer program is that it allows provincial governments the flexibility to set priorities to determine what is the most important investment to make in this area of programming.
We are suggesting and promoting the notion that if we want to get people back to work that we have to be able to provide for the proper care of children along the way, a point of view shared by many provincial governments.
All we are trying to do in this case is to ensure that there is support in those areas, so that they can exercise the new flexibility and the priorities that they have under the new social transfer.