Madam Speaker, I would like to direct a comment and a question to the hon. member for Churchill.
I agree with much of what she has said. One thing bothers me with the talk leading up to the transfers, and I am sure the hon. member will agree with this. Somehow with the transfers we now need what this government says is accountability. I have some problems with that because when the government says it needs accountability, what the government is saying is that it has not had it in the past.
Who knows best how to deliver a health care system in my province in my constituency than the people who live there? What is the point of demanding accountability? Are you going to create an army of people to say this is where your health dollars go, this is where your education dollars go and this is where the welfare dollars go?
I would not have any idea at the present time how to deliver a health care system to a village on the coast of Newfoundland. Does the hon. member agree with the government that says this is how much money you are going to get but you are going to be accountable to us as to how it is going to be spent, as if you are not capable of spending your own tax dollars?