Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs said that the federal government wanted to be highly effective and competent and in a position to help Canadians in its areas of jurisdiction, wanted the provinces to be highly effective and competent in their areas of jurisdiction as well and wanted a very strong partnership between the two levels of government.
Are we to assume from the remarks of the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs that the federal government is keeping the leading role for itself in a whole series of sectors, so it can set broad standards and objectives, and giving the provinces a supporting role, that is, the role of administrator?