Madam Speaker, I will answer that question very directly. What the government is doing on employment insurance is inadequate and I will tell the member why.
What has been said by many government people and others is that the people who are going to be given the additional weeks of employment insurance do deserve it. I agree, they do deserve it, but the implication of what they are saying, and the member opposite knows this very well because he knows that this is an idea that has a long history in Conservative thinking, is that these people deserve it but there are other people who do not deserve it and they are not going to get it.
There are members across the way who are shaking their heads--