Mr. Speaker, no, I don't believe that factors in in a big way with the delay. Mr. Speaker, the fiscal imbalance is an issue right across the country. Of the 10 provinces, this affects provinces as well as territories. Five of them want more resource revenues included in equalization; five of them want more excluded. All three territories have taken the position that we want the O'Brien report recommendation that 50 percent comes to us. So there is no consensus across the country. The dilemma the Prime Minister has had is trying to get a consensus. He hasn't been able to. Mr. Speaker, we were going to have a Premiers' meeting last week. It was downgraded to a teleconference call, because we went into that knowing that we were not going to get everybody onside.

So, Mr. Speaker, the biggest delay was caused by the absence of an agreement among all the provinces as much as it is by the federal government delaying. Thank you.