Mr. Speaker, that question is virtually a whole program itself. There is something interesting in what my colleague has said: each province that has capitulated to the federal government is experiencing delays with the transfer of assets. I have said a lot about agriculture because it is the area with which I am perhaps the most familiar, but there are provinces that do not negotiate on the provincial to federal government level, but instead wait for federal public servants to do it all. Expand this situation and their jurisdiction has been totally lost just to get what they need. We have seen how this happened with social affairs. Everything was turned over to the feds to solve the problem. Now there is a heavy price to pay.
In the House of Commons on October 14th, 1999. See this statement in context.