Thank you.
Let me turn now to Ms. DesBrisay and the Movement for Canadian Literacy. Obviously I share your deep concern about what has happened this week.
There is a Canadian Press story this morning that quotes Treasury Board President John Baird saying that he has to fix the....
I'll read a little more from this story than I've written down. In relation to the $17.7 million in cuts for literacy, he says:
I think if we're spending $20 million and we have one out of seven folks in the country that are functionally illiterate, we've got to fix the ground floor problem and not be trying to do repair work after the fact.
In other words, we should abandon all adults who are in need of literacy training.
I'd like your comments in relation to what he had to say.