Ms. Beaulieu, you thanked us for having gone to visit francophone communities, and I want to point out that these visits were very interesting. The Court Challenges Program enabled us to obtain schools, but these schools were closed because new ones were being built for the anglophone community. The schools that had been closed because they were no longer usable were given to francophones. We saw this with our own eyes. It is shameful to see what governments are doing. The Liberals have nothing to boast about in this area either.
From the literacy standpoint, it's the same story. It is as if people could wake up one fine morning and decide to teach themselves. We need organizations and organizers. I have said it before and I will say it again: there is a surplus of $50 billion in the employment insurance fund. Yesterday evening again, the government answered one of my questions by saying that it was through training and education that we can help people. So why not spend some of this surplus on literacy and thus be able to set up some schools?
In the town of Petit Rocher in New Brunswick, there was a literacy school operating in a church basement. The teacher had to supply the toilet paper himself. That's how people are treated.
Do you think it would be a good thing in phase II of the employment insurance program, which addresses training, for there to be agreements between the federal and provincial governments on literacy in order to make it possible for our workers and the population to enter the labour market?