Mr. Speaker, equalization payments vary a lot from one year to the next according to the state of the economy. Does the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs realize that, while he guarantees Mike Harris $5.5 billion to organize health care, he is saying to Bernard Landry “Good luck with your budget. That is about what you are going to get in equalization payments”?
In the House of Commons on February 19th, 1999. See this statement in context.