Mr. Chairman, I would like you to signal me when I shall have only two minutes left, because my friend Guy André would also like to ask a question.
Mr. Sinclair, I would like to know what are your thoughts about an issue that doesn't seem to be taken into account at the present time.
Mr. Pettigrew was been very clear when he was minister. He said that health and public education would not be open to negotiations at WTO. However, as concerns private education, he was never able to make a firm commitment. He even said that Canada was an expert in the field of education and training and that it would be nice if we could export that expertise. Considering that there are more and more private schools at least in Quebec, that our universities are mostly private and that Americans might probably be interested, should'nt we stipulate that the whole education sector should not be part of WTO negotiations towards liberalization of services?
A social economy is developing. Let us take, for instance, child care centres in Quebec. They are not private companies in the traditional meaning because they are non-profit. However, they are private inasmuch as they do not offer public services as such. They are autonomous and financed in a large part by the State, but also by users.
When we talk about public services, this sector of the social economy is not taken into account. It worries me a lot because child care services and home care services allowing functionally dependent people to stay at home, for instance, represent a market that will develop enormously in the next few years. Those sectors are not really identified as sensitive.
Have you started to reflect on those issues? Perhaps you already have a few ideas about it.