Mr. Speaker, I appreciate the hon. member's speech and I appreciate her contributions to the finance committee. I think she is one of the more thoughtful members of the committee and actually thus far has not been imbued with overly partisan rhetoric.
She is obviously supporting the motion. That does raise some difficulties, because the motion proposes the deletion of renewable resources for a particular province. If we were to delete that measurement of fiscal capacity for the province of Saskatchewan, what would her answer be to other provinces which also would like their unique resources deleted from their measurement of fiscal capacity?
Obviously the province of Manitoba and the province of Quebec would prefer that renewable resources be deleted from the measurement of fiscal capacity. There are other situations, let us say in British Columbia, where some want the measurement of property values deleted from the measurement of fiscal capacity.
I would be interested in knowing whether she supports her party's position that the whole concept of non-renewable resources be deleted from the measurement of fiscal capacity. Would she prefer that prior to hearing from the panel that has just been appointed?