Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister.
Despite the Prime Minister's promise to completely withdraw from manpower training, the UI reform package tabled 10 days ago would introduce five new labour programs. Faced with this announcement, the National Assembly unanimously reaffirmed the Quebec consensus on the need to transfer all federal manpower programs to Quebec.
With the Minister of Human Resources Development scheduled to meet his Quebec counterpart tomorrow to discuss the issue of transferring manpower programs, can the Prime Minister tell us if his minister will have the mandate to discuss the transfer of all manpower matters to Quebec, without conditions or national standards, as provided for in the Quebec National Assembly's unanimous resolution?