Mr. Speaker, I appreciate what the member had to say. However the underlying question is: Are provinces, in a way, not like people? Are we not creating, to a certain extent, some kind of dependency on equalization, given that it is not clear to most people just why the money is being given?
We are transferring huge gobs of money from one place to another, from one pocket to another. Under what circumstances? I do not know. To a certain extent we are creating a dependency when the lines are not very clearly defined for these transfers.
Would the member comment on that?