He is a Liberal and he is a very smart MP. I can understand why he clicks into that so quickly.
If a provincial government's total revenue raising ability exceeds the standard, it obviously does not receive the equalization. There we have that nice flat line where the ones that are making more, like Ontario, the industrial heartland of Canada, to the provinces that are experiencing problems, like Newfoundland, each one of those governments can come up with good solid government within their province and put forward good solid programs like all the 10 provinces in Canada do.
Another question is how do we produce new estimates of equalization and when do receiving provinces receive payments. I do not have enough time to go into that so I will have to leave that to the next time we speak on this.