Madam Speaker, I am allowed to make comments and that is in fact what I am doing. Since we obviously gave a lot of latitude to my friend across the way who was all over the map on everything under the sun, I thought I would stick with some real economic points.
My friend says that we should write off this overpayment and just let the provinces take the money. There are good examples of provinces giving overpayments to municipal governments in this country. What did they do? They demanded the money back and they got it back. The province of Ontario is a good example.
The member suggests, first, that we have not made a decision. We are reviewing the auditor general's comments on this. I would like to ask the hon. member, does he thinks it is prudent for us to make a decision before we have analyzed the comments of the auditor general in terms of this overpayment issue?