Mr. Speaker, maybe the minister was speaking to his parliamentary secretary while I was speaking. I made it quite clear that the NDP would not sign the Saskatoon agreement as it now stands. I went into great detail about how we objected to the language of new or modified Canada-wide social programs. The first dumb question of the day. I just explained why we would not sign the Saskatoon agreement.
The minister said that they brought in the CHST in order to solve these problems. I am saying that the CHST is a form of the very unilateralism that the social union, in its best intention, is designed to overcome. We have had one unilateral action after the other, going back to the MacEachen budget of 1982, which was the first time the EPF transfers were cut unilaterally by a Liberal government. The Tories said that they would never do such a thing. Then they were elected in 1984 and the first thing Jake Epp did was unilaterally cut the—