I wanted to follow up on the comment that Mr. Kelly made, of course, that somehow if you're not working you don't want a job. I've run into thousands of people across this country who would love to work and for one reason or another can't get themselves into a job.
Nobody chooses to live in poverty. Poverty is an awful, terrible, debilitating experience, and it seems that the further into poverty you get, the more difficult it is and the more costly it is to get you out. That's why I think we must reconsider the whole question of how we structure our EI program and make it more helpful to more people, the groups we were talking about earlier, the disabled, women, aboriginals, immigrants, who find themselves more proportionately in that category than others.
I heard it once said, actually by a bishop.... It might have been your Bishop Henry, I'm not sure.