Mr. Speaker, I would have expected that surely by this time the hon. member would have caught on that in fact we are going much further than the previous offer.
The Prime Minister over a week ago said that we are withdrawing from the area of education and training. In fact we have introduced in the legislation that there would be no direct involvement in terms of a voucher unless there was provincial consent.
Furthermore, we have clearly put on the table the entire global amount of expenditures we make, which in the province of Quebec right now is about $500 million or $600 million, plus the savings that will be generated, which will be another $240 million, to determine how we could work out a partnership with them. If they have delivery mechanisms that suit the criteria for the clients we must serve, we are quite prepared to use those delivery mechanisms. We can sit down to work out how we can eliminate duplication and overlap in these areas. We can work out common employment plans at the community level. We can discuss how we can share resources.
This is a real attempt to find a new partnership for employment with every province and help people get back to work.