Well, obviously we do support all sorts of measures for employment, in particular for people from disenfranchised groups, but what we're talking about here are people who have jobs. Sometimes when you look at aboriginal people, women, workers of colour, and workers with disabilities, they are also the people who are more likely to be employed in part-time, temporary, casual-type jobs that don't have security. What we're saying essentially is that those people should have the right to access EI for those periods of unemployment.
Take a look at the stats. People aren't getting rich on unemployment. They don't choose to be there.
We certainly would expand all sorts of things. We've been promoting an insurance system under employment insurance that would currently give those workers the opportunity to access their EI while they upgrade their skills—all sorts of things—but what we're talking about in this committee is that when they have periods of unemployment, whether short-term or long-term, they should have the right to access the EI benefits they've paid into.