Mr. Chair, I will make two points in response to the hon. member's question. First of all, the transfers to the provinces and territories have gone up very substantially as a result of achieving fiscal balance in Canada. He is talking about a particular program and some millions of dollars. This is of course billions of dollars in increases in transfers to the provinces and territories of Canada.
The other thing I might mention to him, and I recently gave a speech on this subject in Washington, is the investment by Canada in financial literacy which was in the last budget and is an important form of literacy, particularly as we go through more difficult economic times, as we see people looking at more options with respect to mortgage financing and so on.