Mr. Speaker, the government always quotes statistics for a full year. I would ask him to check his figures for the past five months.
Since the federal government has shown it is incapable of fighting unemployment creatively, and since the problem has taken on such proportions, particularly in Quebec, where we have over 800,000 people on welfare now, how does the Minister of Human Resources Development explain the federal government's stubborn refusal to give the Government of Quebec jurisdiction in matters of manpower training, when it alone can establish the appropriate and integrated measures that will really create jobs?