Thank you, Mr. Chairman.
Sir, I deplore the fact that you, as the Minister of Labour, are taking advantage of the situation to spread disinformation regarding the positions of the political parties.
The role of this committee and of all the other committees consists in advising the House of Commons. Therefore, we must come up with answers that are as brief and, of course, as accurate as possible.
I was also hoping to get an answer regarding the number of child care centres created by your government. Mr. Minister, you spoke of 15,000 spaces. Just recently, the committee heard witnesses from Ontario, who told us about the successful creation of spaces in child care centres through a long-term program in that province. Ontario, and specifically the Toronto region, is where the most spaces in child care centres have been created. And this has nothing to do with the Conservative Party's strategy.
I think that I still have the same question: How many spaces in child care centres have you created?
However, there is another issue about which I insist on getting answers from the ministers, especially from Mr. Solberg. I am talking about the Summer Career Placements Program. Although you changed the name, it is still the same program. You changed the venues for the choices: they would be made by non-profit organizations in each provincial capital and by private organizations in Ottawa. Thus, the people on the ground in each riding no longer know what is happening, who made the requests and who got what. Mr. Minister, although your government says that it wants more transparency, this file says otherwise.
Do the choices have to be made today? Have they been made, Mr. Minister? Will you send the list of the organizations to which you awarded positions, along with their number, to this committee, if not to each riding? This would enable us to compare with what was done last year and see whether you were right in saying that you would save money. Above all, we want to see how effective your actions have been.