Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Human Resources Development.
Yesterday, the Société québécoise de developpement de la main-d'oeuvre strongly denounced Bill C-96, saying: Quebec alone will hold the responsibility for manpower adjustment and trade training policies on its territory and will therefore repatriate the budgets allocated by the federal government for these programs in Quebec.
Will the minister agree that the federal government's plans confer upon it the possibility of entering directly into an agreement with any individual or organization of its choice, thereby turning its back on the consensus of the partners making up the SQDM and their priorities and on the unemployed of Quebec?