Madam Speaker, my colleague from Newfoundland has intimated to me on several occasions that he would like to have been from Cape Breton.
That being said, I would have to remind the member that equalization is a function of the federal-provincial agreement. In this past year, 2001-02, the transfer to Newfoundland will exceed $1.5 billion, which constitutes almost 39% of the total revenues for the province of Newfoundland. I would think that--