Mr. Speaker, we have increased transfer payments to families by billions of dollars since we formed the government.
We had a program on day care that was proposed. It was part of our program in 1993, but it was rejected by the provincial governments which did not want to put more money into it, so we decided to give the money to the families rather than lose it. That is why the child tax credit has given a lot more money to families.
Some of the provinces are using that occasion to reduce their own transfers and to apply it elsewhere in the same field. That is their judgment. They have the right to do that, but—