Thank you, Mr. Chair.
I would like to welcome the people who are here with us today and thank them for coming. Their presentations covered a broad range of issues that will no doubt be the subject of debate and decisions during the next budget process. Some things will not be easy, and your presentations will guide our thinking and our deliberations.
I would like to thank Mr. Gilbert in particular for his reminder. I think that your sector is the one that should be best informed. You will have to be very vigilant during the next budget.
Mr. Patry, thank you for your presentation. In the CSN's comments, at the bottom of page 3, you mention the failure of talks between members of the joint Liberal-Conservative committee. You said that that was insufficient.
Not much has been said yet about the bill before us now, and I would like to discuss it. Your analysis is impeccable. When you talked about the number of people not covered, there could be no doubt. With respect to the bill specifically, I would like to know if the CSN has conducted an analysis. As you know, the NDP has said that we want to make Parliament work. We now have $935 million, according to the government anyway, that could help as many as 190,000 unemployed workers and their families. We will do a thorough audit of those numbers, of course. Two of our economic advisors from the union community say that the numbers are accurate. However, we would like to know whether the CSN has audited them too.