As I have said, Mr. Speaker, if we take next year's theme to be readiness to learn and use that to mobilize all of our resources, whether they are provincial, community based or whether they are with families, rather than simply imposing something—the federal government telling Canadians what to do—then we have a chance to change our thinking as a society about the crucial importance of the early years of development. That is the way we are going to make social progress in this country.
In the House of Commons on March 24th, 1998. See this statement in context.