Mr. Speaker, I have listened carefully to my colleague's speech. She gives manpower training as an example of successful federalism.
At this time, it can be seen that there is a big problem in that area. When someone says that manpower training is being handed back to the provinces, while at the same time a duplicate youth strategy is being created, that the Federal Regional Development Office is taking steps to encourage young entrepreneurs alongside the economic development corporations already in existence, that millennium scholarships are created, another example of federal meddling in education and a measure designed with the next election in mind, this of course gives government members something to boast about. But all of this is in an area which is not in any way part of its jurisdiction.
With such examples of federal interference coming on top of all the previous failures to change the Canadian federal system, is it any wonder that Quebeckers are highly sceptical about the Calgary declaration? I find, moreover, that it contains nothing at all that Quebeckers have long been calling for.
Would there not be a way in this House for the federal government to show a real desire to respond to Quebec's demands, which have been expressed for many years, with a position that could at least meet the traditional needs of Quebec?
At the present time, the Calgary declaration does not even contain anything for the Quebec federalists who want to see Canada changed.
Could the hon. member not pass these desires and wishes on to her government in order to convince it to modify its position?