Mike Lake at the Human Resources, Skills and Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities Committee

On March 1st, 2007. See this statement in context.

March 1st, 2007 / 3:50 p.m.

Conservative

Mike Lake Conservative Edmonton—Mill Woods—Beaumont, AB

I want to take advantage of the presence of the departmental officials here and ask a couple of questions, if I could.

I'm curious right off the bat--and this is something that came up yesterday in our discussion--in terms of whether the department thinks the EI program is the right mechanism to deal with this. Is there any evidence? If there is, what does it show?

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