Madam Speaker, I thank the parliamentary secretary for his intervention. I think he misread what I said. I said people in the have not provinces should not be treated as liabilities.
What we want to create is equality of opportunity, not equality of outcome. We cannot do that. We have regional disparity. We have different things happening across this country. But equality of opportunity, quality of life, we are all after those goals. It is a great target to shoot for.
When we look at equalization across the country, Saskatchewan is a have not province for whatever reasons. I am wondering why Saskatchewan oil revenues are not treated the same as Newfoundland oil revenues. Newfoundland is also a have not province. Why do we have different sets of rules for different provincial jurisdictions? Why do we have some extra little things written for other areas?