Mr. Speaker, I thank the hon. member for a serious question.
In addition to the proposals that were contained in the green book dealing with major support for child care, a major attempt by my colleague to deal with the enforcement of child support orders and major new programs of employment enhancement, we have indicated in the green book that we are prepared to work with the provinces to free up many of the existing rules in the delivery of social assistance that provide penalties or disincentives for women on social assistance to go back to work.
One of the things I find sort of terrible and really obsolescent is that we confiscate close to 70 per cent of any earned income if a woman wants to go back to work; we figure we have to take back the benefits. As soon as the provinces reciprocate, we as a federal government are prepared to renegotiate the Canada Assistance Plan to make sure that particular condition will be changed and the woman the hon. member talked about can go to work.