Mr. Speaker, we will certainly not be holding the constitutional debate here this evening because the government, with the support of the Reform Party, has decided to refer it to the supreme court.
I wish to point out to my hon. colleague from the Reform Party that the best way to work constructively is certainly not to run election campaigns as racist and provocative as theirs was this past May.
I would like to congratulate my Bloc Quebecois colleague for his speech, and to tell him that I am sure he will do a good job in committee to improve all of the aspects of this measure.
I would like to raise the following point with him. In developing a business, there is the whole aspect of financing, particularly for small and medium size businesses. There is also the whole aspect of training. Tens of thousands of jobs in this country are unfilled because companies cannot find the appropriate human resources for the available jobs. This means quality manpower is a key element in a company's future.
I would like to ask my hon. colleague whether, because of the billions of dollars cut from education budgets across the country, and the excess burden placed on small business and on workers through the employment insurance program—the government has built up $15 billion in the fund—he is not concerned about these cuts, which were made without consulting the provinces. Student debt—