I took my own experience as someone from our province of Ontario. In Ontario, federally and provincially, we spend more than $20 billion on education, training, and learning. We provide supports to pre-school programs, primary and secondary levels, the post-secondary level, and colleges and universities. We provide funds for immigrant settlement and adult education. In my community, this happens within four school boards. We provide substantial funds to EI, through social assistance. We provide substantial funds through the labour training agreement.
All these things have infrastructures in place. We have to ensure that each one, whether it be for children, youth, or adults, achieves success in teaching people how to read. Rather than develop a federal program for something that is clearly provincial jurisdiction, rather than try to clean up the failures of previous systems, we should work to ensure that for all Canadians—children, youth, or adults—there is a good system in place. We have increased support in many of these areas, particularly immigrant settlement. In the Department of Human Resources and Social Development, they spend $28 million on enhanced language training. We're spending an additional $900,000 on essential skills and workplace literacy, $73 million on the workplace skills strategy, $2.6 billion for aboriginal education programs, $4.4 million for computers in schools, over $1 million for adult education skills in the Maritimes, $63 million for the sector council. I could go on and on.