There are employees here who have families and children. If something happens all of a sudden, they have to go back home and don't have work anymore. I think we should make a little bit of room within the big machinery of Parliament or government. I'm not talking about picking up coke cans in ditches. It seems to me there should be something available for these people.
For example, we need people in translation. It seems to me that the people doing translation could be transferred to departments to translate there. It would be simple. In any case, we had to rely on volunteers to get the translation done in Vimy. There could be some people here who can do it professionally. These are things that we can do. It just isn't right, and I do not accept the rationale that it is because we don't want to pay them benefits. To be perfectly honest, that is unacceptable. We need to find some way of helping these people out. As members of Parliament, we continue to receive our salary even when we go back to our ridings during an election. Employees should also receive theirs.