Mr. Speaker, I congratulate the member on his speech concerning this very historic budget.
One of the important elements of this budget, after we consider the impact of balancing it, is the theme of education as it relates to preparing our youth for their place in the workforce as they move through their lives.
The member well knows that under the Canadian opportunities strategy, the Canadian millennium scholarship foundation is the centrepiece. In addition to that, the tax relief on interest payments on student loans, the tax free RRSP withdrawals for lifelong learning and an education credit and child care expense deduction for part time students are certainly some of the others.
I thought I would just ask the member if he would like to comment a little bit on the issue of education, maybe from the perspective of his own riding, concerning the reception that Canadians have been giving to the investment that we are making in our youth.