Human Resources committee  I would say that this is what will end up happening. Sometimes when people get hit with a cut, yes, there is discouragement. But people also see a greater goal here, and people will come back together. We're not going to give up, for example, the fight for a universally accessibl

Human Resources committee  Again, this is creating dissent. Earlier there was a reference to value for money. Well, there is nothing to say that any of the programs being cut weren't valuable. There is no evidence to show that. What there is evidence to show is that these groups being affected take a dolla

Human Resources committee  I think this is not just an attempt; this is an attack on that social fabric. If you look at it, the government obviously is looking for dollars to spend on its war effort, when quite clearly Canadians are saying we shouldn't be there. We want to support our troops by bringing th

Human Resources committee  I think it shows quite clearly what the government values and who they don't value. I think it's a matter—

Human Resources committee  Yes, I do.

Human Resources committee  Mr. Chair, can I just suggest that as a starting point, the members of the committee might like to refer to the news release that was sent out by the Movement for Canadian Literacy and ABC Canada, which sent out a comprehensive list about a week or ten days ago of the literacy gr

Human Resources committee  I might have some things to say to the Saskatchewan government, but this is about the work that you've done.

Human Resources committee  I started that in my presentation. The effect of this will be that if they want to silence people, to drive people underground, to make sure we are not just stalled on equality issues and access to job issues but move backwards, that's exactly what these cuts are going to do. We

Human Resources committee  Fifteen seconds.

Human Resources committee  Fifteen seconds? I'll try to talk really fast.

Human Resources committee  Quite clearly, the answer is that the minister said they're going to have national programs. If you don't have programs at the base—and that's both in workplace and community, because we know there are a lot of people excluded from the workplace, which I just referenced.... So yo

Human Resources committee  Take a look at the infrastructure program, for instance, that was cut in apprenticeships. While we have employers and governments talking about skills shortages in the labour force in this country, the infrastructure fund couldn't have been seen to be lobbying in that, other than

Human Resources committee  In terms of the Canadian Labour Congress, we didn't have any consultations either in terms of what cuts were coming down or the change in the mandate, obviously, of Status of Women. So there weren't consultations. But certainly, since the government was elected, we've consistentl

Human Resources committee  Merci beaucoup. Bonjour. The cuts announced by the federal government in Budget 2006 and on September 25 amount to an attempt to silence the voices of Canadians, especially those who are not yet able to exercise their full citizenship because of barriers in their way: women, imm