Mr. Speaker, this past weekend, the daily Le Devoir reminded us of something which, unfortunately, we have known for a long time, namely that Canada has a poor record as regards manpower training. The author of the article even calls Canada the dunce among G-7 countries, as well as the black sheep of OECD.
In his discussion paper, the Minister of Human Resources Development admits that training programs are in a real mess. Quebec came to that conclusion more than five years ago at the forum on employment and asked for the transfer, to its government, of the whole responsibility for training.
The minister's action should be consistent with his findings, and he should announce, at last, that this responsibility will be transferred from the federal to the provincial government.