That is a very good question, Mr. Speaker. This has intrigued me. It is why I went back over the last 10 years and compared us just with Manitoba. I could have used other provinces, but to me Manitoba seems to be a good comparison. Both provinces have a million people. They are side by side. There are some similarities between the two provinces.
It just shows me how flawed the formula is when we look at per capita income and per capita GDP. In most of these things in most years, Manitoba outperformed Saskatchewan but Saskatchewan is far short of Manitoba on receipts. It just reinforces Courchesne.
I also looked at Robert Mansell's study of fiscal federalism. He did extensive work from the period of 1961 up to mid-1995. I ran the numbers. The difference between Manitoba and Saskatchewan in that period was something like $600 million a year. Saskatchewan was at 85% of the Canadian average for per capita income and Manitoba was at 92%. I am not maligning Manitoba, but it underscores the deficiencies in fiscal federalism in this country and how Saskatchewan quite literally is getting shafted under this formula.