However, following the signing of the 1997 agreement that I mentioned, side agreements were entered into. These include the labour market development agreements, or LMDAs, for employment insurance claimants, and the workforce development agreements, or WDAs, which were created in 2017 to support a broader cohort, including low-skilled workers, the self-employed and people distant from the labour market. All of this was created in that context.
In Quebec, these transfers are integrated into a partnership model structured around the Commission des partenaires du marché du travail, which brings together employers, unions, the education community and community organizations to guide priorities. Therefore, we want federal money to go to the workforce and to be entrusted to Quebec so that Quebec can choose its programs, not Ottawa.
What do you think of this Quebec-created model where everyone talks to each other: the community sector, the union sector and self-employed workers?