Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Human Resources Development. We learned from the SQDM, the Quebec labour development corporation, that the minister was aware of the duplication between his youth service project and Quebec's young volunteers program as early as the beginning of February, two months before he launched his program.
Does the minister confirm that federal and Quebec government officials tried without success to harmonize the two programs before the federal government decided to go ahead despite the resulting increase in duplication?