Mr. Speaker, I am not sure what the answer is. The provinces manage many of these programs. Some manage them well, some do not manage them well, some make mistakes and some do an exceptional job. Under our constitutional arrangements the obligation of administering the programs goes to the provinces.
The federal government, by using its spending power when it brought in national health care, made a commitment back in the sixties to fund 50% of health care. It is reneging on that obligation over the last few years. One reason that we have a crisis in terms of health care is because the federal government is withdrawing a major part of the funding. Whether we have good administration or bad administration the federal government does not pay the bill it should be paying.