Mr. Speaker, yesterday, Dominion Bond Rating Service confirmed the misgivings the official opposition and the Quebec government had about Quebec and Ontario being hit hardest by most of the cuts in transfer payments announced by the federal government in its last budget.
My question is for the Minister of Finance. Will the minister confirm the Dominion Bond Rating estimate that Ontario and Quebec will have to absorb 71 per cent of the reductions in transfers announced in the last federal budget?