Madam Speaker, we absolutely do care about youth so they have job opportunities, so they can be independent, self-sufficient, and able to have a life outside being employed by government, or life outside government coming along after they create a business or have a profession, whereby 30 per cent of the take is taken by government. We want to move away from that kind of an environment.
I have had experience with the Company of Young Canadians and a couple of other youth programs created by government. They never created long term opportunity for our young people. It is not the right way of doing things, to say that we are going to deal with jobs for young people. It just does not satisfy a long term need.
It is an artificial, government created environment which is not sufficient and is not the highest priority in terms of job creation as far as we are concerned as the Reform Party.