Mr. Speaker, I take great offence to what the member just said. He needs to understand that Saskatchewan needs this agreement. It needs to be treated equally with the other provinces. We do not need to hear any list of excuses as we heard from the finance minister earlier. He said that we do not have 20% unemployment. I guess that is true but the main reason is that our government, for the most part NDP socialist governments over the last decades, has driven our young people out of our province, to the point where we can hardly maintain our population at this point.
It is imperative that the federal government begins to treat provinces fairly by setting up a deal that can easily apply to Saskatchewan, if the government would be willing to do that. The finance minister, who is from Saskatchewan, should be willing to treat his own province equally with others but he does not seem to be willing to do that.
What is it that is so difficult for this government to understand that it will not treat provinces fairly on this deal?