Mr. Speaker, in its economic statement, the federal government seeks to encroach upon Quebec's jurisdiction over labour.
It wants to force interprovincial mobility on workers, especially health care workers. Otherwise, it is cutting health care funding. It forgot one thing, though: Things are done in French in Quebec.
For us, the plan means that bilingual workers from Quebec will be able to work elsewhere in Canada, but the workers who come to Quebec from unilingual anglophone provinces will be unilingual English doctors. In Quebec, things are done in French. This cannot work.
Instead of undermining quality of care in Quebec, could the federal government just mind its own business?