Mr. Speaker, I think the Prime Minister made it very clear on Monday that in fact the federal government was very much clarifying the respective responsibilities and we were transferring to the provinces a large number of responsibilities that had previously been under various regimes of shared programming.
For the member to claim that somehow in fact there is now more interference is simply turning logic and reality on its head. We are making a very major departure for the province because we think that is a much better way of clarifying the role.
At the same time, I think everyone recognizes that under the Unemployment Insurance Act, as it was constitutionally agreed to in 1941 by all the provinces, including Quebec, the federal government has taken the trusteeship for those under the regime of that system and therefore we have a responsibility to the people in that system.
It would seem to me that it is about time this hon. member learned a little bit about the real Constitution of Canada.