Madam Speaker, in view of the lack of time, I will confine my remarks to the first point raised by the hon. member concerning education.
I think it is fair to say that this party, given the opportunity, would never have introduced a scholarship millennium fund similar to the one we are debating here and now. The problem for us is that the transfer money should go back to the provinces and the territories and not in the way that it is being done here where it is being handed out in some sort of way yet to be determined for individual students.
The government has cut back significantly on post-secondary education and on the facilities. It would have been much better if the money had been put back into those facilities so that tuition fees could be reduced and programs could be enhanced. For political reasons the Liberals have chosen to go at it another way.