Yes, there's a labour shortage in the west, in British Columbia and Alberta. Don't you think that, instead of cutting assistance to literacy and skills development organizations, we should increase that assistance instead so that we can train people to become self-sufficient sooner, particularly where there's a big economic boom? We're not helping them, because we're cutting funding for literacy, youth and early childhood centres. Don't you think that's a bad way to reduce poverty? In my opinion, these kinds of cuts deprive people of the means to improve their situation.
On November 23rd, 2006. See this statement in context.