Mr. Speaker, obviously the Leader of the Opposition has not taken the time to read the bill. There are no new powers given to the human resources department, as he may well recall.
The human resources department is an amalgamation of four other departments to provide a more effective delivery of services across Canada. The powers under article 6 were also contained within the existing departments. Over the past year they have allowed us to have almost 50,000 different contracts and agreements with a wide variety of groups, including the province of Quebec and the Government of Quebec in order to better assist Quebec workers to get back to work and to help with training. We have done that in a very co-operative way.
I hope the hon. Leader of the Opposition will not go off on another wild goose chase but will look at the legislation and see there are no new powers. We are simply trying to make a more efficient delivery of what the government wants to do which is help people get back to work.