Mr. Speaker, 50,000 students will not be getting $3,000 scholarships because that money will be going instead to the creation of a new federal bureaucracy, which will duplicate what is already in place for administering student loans and bursaries.
Since Quebec has already agreed to having the maple leaf on all the cheques, why is the Minister of Human Resources Development stubbornly insisting on creating another costly structure which will not give students anything more?