Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Intergovernmental Affairs.
Yesterday, in response to a question by the member for Ber-thier-Montcalm, the minister stated, with reference to federal
responsibilities in the area of manpower and provincial ones in the area of education, as follows:
-the provinces are responsible for education, which is rather closely related to occupational training. It is, therefore, all these constitutional responsibilities which the Government of Canada, in conjunction with the provinces, will be better assuming, thank to the reform proposed by the minister.
Can the Minister explain this statement, which suggests that the federal government has not really given up interfering in education, through national standards in particular?