The best thing to do would have been to invest in institutions, so that everyone would have received the same treatment and the costs would have dropped.
Once again, I am not alone in paying attention to this bill. Young people in my region are telling me very clearly that the federal government's budget does nothing for them and they do not support it. The government should be aware that the young people attending universities represent Canada's future and give them the education they need for the future and for the economy of the future. That is what we need.
Yesterday, I was at the community college in Bathurst. The first question the students asked me was “Where are we going to find jobs? How are we going to pay our tuition fees?” They are very concerned.
The government had a responsibility, and I come back to that because it is its responsibility to lower costs for Canadian students and to do the right thing once and for all. They cannot always be thinking of themselves, their patronage appointments and the millions they are giving to Doug Young. They should look at what is going on with our young people. That is much more important.
I do not support Bill C-36. I say the government should do more important things for young people, invest where it would help them, give them a chance to go to university, to study and to enter the labour market free of debt and not obliged to declare bankruptcy. What are we giving our young people? They go to university and then they go bankrupt. What a great start to life.
Let us hope there are some Liberals who will put a bug in the ear of their minister on behalf of our young Canadians.