Thank you for the question, sir.
I alluded to the fact that leadership is important. What do I mean by that? If you look at how we deal with different issues, how we deal with health issues or aboriginal issues, I believe the new Canadian settlement issue is worth being put on the national agenda.
When our first ministers meet every year, they have agenda items to talk about. So why not put this issue on the first ministers table? Looking forward ten or twenty years, the Canadian labour pool is going to come from new Canadians coming to our shores. We have to get some solutions here. I know government moves slowly, so let's start now and move quickly.
There's another suggestion I'd like to make. If you look at health, for instance, and look at the BNA Act or our Constitution, health is not a jurisdiction of the federal government. Yet the federal government provides that leadership. We have the Canada Health Act, which lays out the framework. We also use funding to entice the provinces to come together at the table.
We need to set out a nationally recognized, consensus-building policy, and we need guideline principles to get the provinces to come to the table. We need to use funding there as well.
Health clearly is not a federal government area, and yet the federal government can still influence the provinces to provide a standard of care. I believe it's important that we do the same thing here.