Madam Speaker, first of all I want to thank the hon. member for his question. In the last Parliament his party and my party were involved in many vigorous debates. I am happy to see that the Canadian people sent us to government in large numbers, but I know that he has certainly a record of being a social conscience on these issues and I hope he will continue to be that conscience.
That being said, I think the decision of the Government of Canada to accept the resignation of John Crow is one that I thought the member actually would be applauding. I am a little bit surprised that he somehow is taking it from stage one to stage two. I do think also, in all seriousness, that the approach of the Government of Canada has to be to inject some hope in the economy first and foremost.
Mr. Thiessen or Mr. Crow, single-handed, are not going to solve the problems of Canadians. I think we need job creation strategies. That is why the first thing we did was in fact to implement the $6 billion infrastructure program.
There is another area where his colleagues from Saskatchewan may be able to help us. I have been working very closely with the Minister of Industry on the whole issue of environmental technologies. We are hoping at the same time to ensure that interprovincial barriers to job and economic growth are wiped out. I know his colleague, the Premier of Saskatchewan, is going to want to hear his views on how important it is to ensure that we have a growing economy that basically breaks down provincial barriers.