Mr. Speaker, contrary to the tone of the official opposition, when all the first ministers were around the table here a couple of weeks ago, they had a very positive discussion. Obviously they were candid and pointed with each other but the end result was that they took major steps to solve an important problem to improve the health care of Canadians. I have no doubt that they will do the same on October 26.
However it should be noted on fiscal imbalance that both orders of government have access to the same major tax bases. The provinces have some bases that the federal government does not, in lotteries and royalties, and each government has total fiscal autonomy.