Mr. Speaker, in its prebudget marketing blitz, the government announced that it would table a budget for a new Canada. The Minister of Foreign Affairs even went as far as to say, with a reformist zeal very uncharacteristic of him, that the status quo would no longer be an issue after the budget. However, what the promised decentralization really boils down to is Ottawa continuing to withdraw its funding for health, post-secondary education and welfare.
My question is for the Prime Minister. Where is this new Canada that was announced with great fanfare when all the government did yesterday was to offload $7 billion or so more onto the provinces?