Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I'd like to thank both witnesses for helping us consider this bill.
Ms. Lovelady and Ms. Watts‑Rynard, you do important education work with your respective organizations, Academy Canada and Polytechnics Canada. Naturally, I listened carefully to what you said. In Quebec, we are working hard on the education system, which falls under the jurisdiction of the National Assembly.
I'm going to ask you a question, but first I'd like to hear your thoughts on the initial reactions to Bill C‑5 last spring, I believe, when we were talking about the labour issue. Back then, we were saying that we wanted to improve labour mobility between the provinces and Quebec.
At the time, Quebec's minister responsible for Canadian relations and labour initially reacted by saying that he wanted to defend jurisdictions and ensure that the federal government did not encroach on Quebec's. Let me remind you that labour, like education, also falls under Quebec's jurisdiction. However, in his opinion, we also had to avoid duplication, an aspect that we haven't discussed much here. He insisted that federal training funds be channelled through existing structures and bilateral agreements between Quebec and Canada, for example, and that programs not be created that might duplicate existing services.
Ms. Watts‑Rynard and Ms. Lovelady, from an education standpoint, could such a bill create duplication?