Mr. Speaker, I do not know why Reformers and Liberals argue with each other. They have the same position, the same reduced Kyoto position.
The federal government drastically reduced its social transfer payments to the provinces. For each dollar cut from federal expenditures between 1994 and 1998, 54 cents, or more than half, where taken out of social transfers to the provinces, that is to say out of the health, education and social assistance budgets.
Now that he knows for sure that the budget will be balanced this year, does the Minister of Finance intend to return to the provinces at least part of what he stole from them instead of taking this money—