Mr. Speaker, if the provinces have so many problems, it is because of the cuts in transfer payments that they have been subjected to for several years. The government has imposed these cuts on all the provinces.
I would like to ask the member opposite—his riding must resemble any other riding—if, in his riding, there are soup kitchens and shelters for poor people. Have their numbers not increased over the last few years? Does he not feel that wealth is not distributed equally everywhere?
Maybe the member could comment on that, unless his riding is so wealthy that people there do not need these services.