Mr. Speaker, 30 years ago, the federal government instituted a program of parental leave, long before the provincial governments started talking about it.
If the provincial government considers there are gaps in Quebec's social policy and it has the money to invest, it is welcome to do so.
But the program that provided six months' parental leave now provides 12. Everyone applauded when we announced it in the throne speech and the budget. Only after we concluded our plans and announced what we were going to do, they suddenly wanted to renegotiate, when they were the ones to leave the table—