Gilles Duceppe on Program For Older Worker Adjustment

In the House of Commons on October 29th, 1997. See this statement in context.

Program For Older Worker AdjustmentOral Question Period

October 29th, 1997 / 2:20 p.m.

Bloc

Gilles Duceppe Bloc Laurier—Sainte-Marie, QC

Mr. Speaker, it is not a question of underestimating these workers. I met with them. I, for one, took the trouble to meet with them.

But I remember when the Liberal Party was in opposition and kept on tabling petitions to extend the POWA program. The Minister of Human Resources Development should remember that. He should ask the member for Saint-Léonard to fill him in.

Why will the Minister of Human Resources Development not agree to the offer made by Minister Harel in a letter dated October 6 in which she asks that the POWA program be extended?

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