Mr. Speaker, the issue of transfers to the provinces and the transition to tax points was addressed in our recent platform. The fact that decisions should be made at the provincial level and that the provinces should have the ability to chart their own course on some of these issues as long as national standards are met is very clear. There have to be national standards but the provinces should have control over the funding.
What we tried to establish in the platform is that the CHST level needs to be established at a provincial and not a national floor level because many provinces will continue to be bludgeoned by the changes in Bill C-28.
In fact, they are talking about establishing a cash floor in my province of Nova Scotia. We are well below the floor. We are down in the basement. We are subterranean because of the cuts. Nova Scotia and other have not provinces have been bludgeoned by this type of change. It should be reversed now and this bill does not reverse it.