There is something else that concerns me. If this continues to be very poorly administered, there could some day be a backlash, a crisis of confidence among Canadians with regard to these programs. At that point, people who really need those programs and want to do things properly will be affected by that crisis of confidence. That is what we are going to see if things are not done with greater care than what we have seen with the banks, the pilots, etc.
I would like to hear your reaction to another issue, and that is the need for basic skills. Twenty per cent of our fellow citizens have enormous difficulties with basic skills, that is to say with literacy, which implies that they have trouble reading. Most often, these are people who are no longer a part of the system, who no longer receive unemployment insurance benefits, and so on. There are certain legislative provisions that ensure that programs, employment insurance surpluses, for instance, will be used to help these people to acquire these skills. Often, these programs and measures have wound up helping the service industry. Thanks to these measures, someone who was ready and willing to work, but did not know how to write or count, and could not even use a cash register, was finally given access to the labour market.
In a broader perspective, would it not be important to also help those people?