You are familiar with the system currently in place in Quebec, which falls under the Ministère de l’Emploi et de la Solidarité sociale. It provides people with very minimal social assistance. It is known as last resort assistance. People who are ineligible and cannot receive employment insurance benefits—Those who are eligible are already very much affected. They once had an average income but now must live temporarily on EI benefits which amount to less than they were earning, knowing that when their benefits run out, they will probably still be unemployed, because the factories are closed. Their only recourse is social assistance.
Social assistance does not allow the recipient to have any assets, that is, property of any value. In order to be eligible for that kind of assistance, people must sell their assets. I think that anyone who wants to make their way and benefit from services within our society finds this aspect very disagreeable and demeaning.