Mr. Speaker, we are proud of the national program for maternity and parental leave.
This program has demonstrated its value for 30 years and is now in the process of being enhanced. The revised program will be ready this year. Indeed, as early as at the end of the year 2000, parents will receive a bigger cheque and, more importantly, lower income families will be eligible for a supplement under that program.
We invite the Quebec government to build on the national foundations to provide an even better program if it so wishes.