Madam Speaker, I think the hon. member has just made my case. He says that the people of Quebec want to have the responsibility to spend the moneys on health, education and social assistance in the way they see fit.
That is what the block transfer allows them to do. We put the money together in a fund and give it to the provinces that constitutionally have the responsibility to provide programs and services for health, education and social assistance. We are telling them they know best. They can take the money and allocate it in the way they see best fitting for the people of Quebec. The block transfer gives that flexibility. It gives the provinces the responsibility to respond to its own constituency in those areas.
In the course of the debate I cannot see that the opposition has any real clarity or substance to its point.