Mr. Speaker, I met with all the ministers of education and labour a month ago in Toronto where we outlined the directions of the program.
We indicated at that time we would be working in co-operation with the provinces, as we presently do, on the existing co-op education program which the provinces utilize at the moment. We have agreed to establish working groups of officials in each province so that we can ensure the programs are totally harmonized and there is no overlap or duplication.
Again I come back to one central fact. It strikes me as exceedingly strange, when there are 400,000 young people in the country desperate to go back to work, wanting to find a place where they can get serious training in the workplace, that the only question the hon. member has is how do we stop the program rather than how do we go ahead with it.