Mr. Romanow, not Galganov. Let us forget him; he is history. Nobody mentions him any more.
Mr. Romanow, who even claimed to be speaking for the premiers of all Canadian provinces, said they felt they had been taken for a ride, because they were the ones who did the work, who made the cuts, by order of the federal finance minister, and who are seeing the finance minister pocket the dividends rather than distribute them to the provinces. It is hard to take.
When someone asks others to do his dirty work, when manages to make a profit somewhere and the dividends do not even show up in the budget out of a concern for non-transparency, when there are the surpluses, and not a moment's thought is even given to redistributing them to those who actually made them possible, that is hard to take, even for one's friends.