Mr. Speaker, while the minister said in his opening remarks his government's main concern was with jobs, I can tell you that this government's biggest failure is precisely in that area, in spite of the fact that it got elected on a platform of "Jobs, jobs, jobs".
These jobs are nowhere to be seen in Canada, let alone in Quebec. Unemployment is running as high as 10 per cent in Canada. What the minister is suggesting today does not reflect reality.
He also said that the federal government plans to withdraw from occupational training, but at the same time, it is putting forward unemployment action measures to try to interfere, once again, in areas of provincial jurisdiction, because education and occupational training come under provincial jurisdiction.
I must say that I agree with the resolution passed by the Quebec National Assembly saying that the Government of Quebec is prepared to undertake negotiations with the federal government, provided that the federal government completely withdraw from occupational training.
Does the minister agree with the federal government's complete withdrawal from the area of occupational training?