Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for his speech but it sounds like the speech that should have been given for the Bloc opposition day on the national securities regulator.
I understand that the government rarely takes any public initiative without significant polling and strategizing, so I would like to ask the hon. member what the goal of the finance minister's series of sorties against the Government of Ontario was.
Given the words of Michael Bliss, the great Canadian historian, who said that the finance minister's attitude toward Ontario was a marked departure from historical non-federal government involvement in provincial financial affairs, does the member believe that the finance minister will now start a policy of commenting on all provincial budgets?