Madam Speaker, I would point out as a member of the committee that the committee held many, many meetings and heard lots of witnesses. We recognize that the recommendations in the report came from all of us; that we look at finding a way to make the department slightly smaller, modernizing the department and streamlining it. It is a very big department and it deals with huge amounts of money. All the recommendations in the report are there because we, the government, also wanted to see some change and some opportunities to stay on top of some of the issues. Those are the recommendations that came out of the HRDC committee.
In the House of Commons on June 6th, 2000. See this statement in context.