Mr. Speaker, I find it very difficult to understand, when we are proposing to get out of some fields, that I suddenly become a centralisateur. It is a bit difficult for me to understand but I will reflect on it. They want the government to stay in manpower. Fine. If they wanted the government to stay in forestry, mining and many other sectors, it would. However, the government is not interested.
We want to ameliorate the federation and clarify the responsibilities so the citizens of Canada will have a better system of government at the provincial and federal level. This is the goal we are trying to achieve. I am convinced that by Friday most of the provinces will be very happy to accept new responsibilities and accept that the government is getting out of some responsibilities.
If the hon. member wants to tell the Quebec government that I should keep or increase the same responsibilities, that is fine with me.