Mr. Speaker, this Canadian government believes it is important to have a competent, literate, well-skilled workforce if we are to be competitive in the world. That is why we are spending over $2 billion a year in developing workplace skills. We have invested $307 million of new money for settlement funding that will help new Canadians take literacy programming.
We put all these programs forward, along with a whole host of other workplace development skills and education programs which the previous government, the Liberal Party, voted against.