Mr. Speaker, the member is half right; I think the premier of Quebec was wrong.
The transfers to the provinces around health are very complicated. Either the hon. member does not understand the complexity of these transfers or he is involving himself in the kind of activity he characterized others as being involved in.
We have made a significant shift in the way the provinces receive the funding from the federal government by way of tax credits, tax points. Those tax points cannot ever totally deal with this problem because those parts of the country, such as New Brunswick, that do not have the same level of economic activity would not be able to provide the same level of activity as other richer provinces. That is the reason the system was divided between tax points and cash transfers when those transfers were originally announced. That is also the reason that in some period of time during the course of this, I think it was in 1981, that the cap was put on the transfers to the richer provinces.
I and the province of New Brunswick have taken the position that it is time we took those caps off. I am sure the member from British Columbia would welcome that decision. As for the transfers, it is a lot more complicated than the hon. member would have us believe.