Mr. Speaker, that is a very interesting question and a valid one.
As I said earlier, it is possible that one of the motives for doing this is to allow the new Liberal Party leader off the hook. If we put this in place at this time for the period of the next year and the process is not open and the doors are closed, obviously nothing will change. In fact all the concerns will remain, even Premier Hamm's concerns about the offshore accord and the offshore protection clawback provisions.
The new government of Danny Williams in Newfoundland and Labrador has the same concern in that when the provinces are creating wealth they want to be self-sufficient. The province I come from, Manitoba, is a have not province. If the provincial governments are doing their jobs, creating wealth and getting people to come home to their provinces and increasing their populations, then certainly they should be the benefactors of those elements.