Mr. Speaker, we have not dumped the responsibility on to the provinces, but for a very long time the provinces wanted a better partnership with the Government of Canada. We have negotiated this agreement with the provincial governments, including two NDP governments in British Columbia and Saskatchewan.
We have invested $800 million more in active measures to help unemployed Canadians get back to work and that will bring the total amount to $2.7 billion per year to do precisely that job in partnership with the provinces.