Mr. Speaker, yes, it is yet another example of why the federal government should, in its wisdom, which we hope it has, recognize that it should not be pursuing trying to collect back this money.
It even holds further. My hon. colleague talked about transfer payments and equalization payments. He is right. The formula keeps changing and that is exactly what it is. It is a formula that is subject to manipulation. That is why I honestly believe that if we get full efficiency from the government, if we reduce it to doing only those things that should be done by government and can best be done at the federal level, then we could get to a situation where we would no longer pay federal tax and the federal government would bill the provinces a fee for services rendered based on the provincial GDP which would become the equalization.
I believe that would be a far fairer system. It would be less subject to manipulation and it would most certainly be something that would hold the federal government far more accountable for the money it spends and the programs it runs.