Mr. Speaker, by equal treatment, is the member saying that the same taxation regime should be applied to the oil and gas industry in Alberta as is applied to the manufacturing industry in Ontario? Is the hon. member saying that Ontario should not have been given a billion dollars in stabilization payments in the 1990s? Is he saying the federal government should not have helped out with tax reform in 1972 to compensate for the revenues lost by provinces?
If that is what the hon. member is saying, then it is very clear that he does not understand the Canadian economy, what holds it together and what is going to make it grow.