Mr. Speaker, my colleague's leader often refers to the importance of investing in our middle class. One of the great initiatives of this budget is in fact that very thing, an investment in the training of apprentices.
I would like my colleague to listen to this quote from Canada's Building Trades Unions:
After years of being a mere add-on to post-secondary education, apprenticeship is being noticed by our Federal Government...the way apprentices are being treated has changed and they are now, thanks to measures introduced in the this 2014 Budget, treated more like their colleagues in college and university training.
Will my colleague support this investment in training of apprentices or does he agree with his leader that budgets balance themselves?