Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Minister, thank you for coming today.
It was interesting to hear you talk about trying to build for a 21st century economy, which seems remarkable to me, since a very important part of it would be building a workforce and obviously providing for literacy for adult Canadians, when your government has cut literacy funding to the tune of $17.7 million. It seems to me it's obvious from these cuts and from comments from your government that you've given up on people who can't read and write and who are trying to learn to read and write.
Why else would the Treasury Board president say the government is not interested in doing repair work after the fact? Or why, for example, would you claim that your meanspirited literacy cuts only affect lobbyists and advocates, when that clearly is not the truth?