Mr. Speaker, a few years ago, we gave the Government of Quebec a chance to negotiate regarding this issue, and it decided that it was not appropriate to do so.
So the government made arrangements under the existing legislation, with the money collected by the federal government for employment insurance. Our last budget included a measure effective January 1, 2001, to extend parental leave throughout Canada from that date on, for one year.
I think that it is a very good program and that we intend to continue. We have already offered to negotiate and were turned down. So it was up to the provincial government—