Mr. Speaker, the minister claims that his program is working.
If the minister will not listen to us, here is what some other people are saying. The senior director for TAGS says this about the training component of the program: "Much of it has led to nothing and it is training for what?". The chair of the committee calls it lunacy and crazy.
Why does the minister not acknowledge that on the job training is many times more effective than institutional training and build his job creation strategies on the strengths of small businesses in Atlantic Canada?