Mr. Speaker, during the social union negotiations, it was always agreed that we would talk about the social union and the ministers of finance would talk about the money angle.
In fact, on June 15, 1998, the finance ministers from all provinces except Quebec told the Government of Canada that they wanted to go back to equal social transfer payments, as long as equalization payments could be increased accordingly.
That is what the Minister of Finance announced a few days ago, the result being that Quebec will receive 34% of the overall transfer and Ontario only 25%. Ontario is therefore not necessarily the big winner.