Mr. Speaker, I must tell you that the vast majority of provinces certainly realize the situation this government is in. In fact, several of them are facing exactly the same situation. But at the same time I think there is a realization that we all have to work together.
Allow me to quote the Premier of Newfoundland, who said this morning that potential cuts in transfer payments worried him, but that he would support these cuts because what matters above all is that the national government put its fiscal house in order. I think that Mr. Wells is voicing an opinion that I have heard from the vast majority of the other provinces.