Mr. Speaker, I was with the hon. parliamentary secretary until he got to his last point and then one does not necessarily need to comment on the patently obvious.
I appreciate the hon. member's intervention which I think is actually quite enlightening and very helpful. The point in the illustration I was trying to draw was on the issue of mobility. In truth there should really be no impediment on the part of any student anywhere in the country to go to the university of his or her choice.
While I would not necessarily want to pursue the Queen's-McGill dialogue, except over a football game and a beer, as I write the cheque for my son in the fall I am concerned that if he chooses to go to an out of province school I will be writing a far heftier cheque.
I would also adopt the hon. member's position that the provinces are to be congratulated in keeping their educational costs somewhat in line. This government has done a great deal by the $2.5 billion it put up for millennial scholarship money. That is one of the reasons these kinds of numbers can be kept in line. I hearken back to the sitting of the finance committee. President Pritchard came before our committee and congratulated the federal government on its $2.5 billion initiative.