Pourtant, au bout du compte, toutes les analyses faites sur la question ont buté sur la difficulté - voire l'impossibilité - de mesurer de manière objective quelles provinces avaient des besoins de services publics supérieurs, ou des coûts plus élevés pour ces services publics.
However, in the end, all of the analysis that has been done on this issue has foundered on the difficulty - I would almost say the impossibility - of measuring in any objective way which provinces have higher needs for public services or which provinces must incur greater costs in incurring public services.