Mr. Speaker, in response to the hon. member I want to say this. In this federation we are trying to build it is time that we start to trust our partners. The partners we must trust are the provinces. The 10 provinces of Canada must be trusted to take on responsibilities to meet the needs of their citizens, determined by the priorities of the citizens in their respective provinces.
I have witnessed in my political career for 32 years situations where provinces often had a greater care and a greater compassion than the federal government with regard to the priority needs of the provinces.
When I come to this House it is disappointing to hear someone who has been around this assembly for some period of time and to hear the Liberal government, which thinks it has all of the answers and wants to centralize everything in a centralized bureaucratic system, tell the provinces what to do. They think
that under that system they are going to meet the needs of the citizens. We will not build federalism with that kind of mistrust.