You'll have to pardon my lack of French. If you heard me, you'd laugh. I'll try to do this in English.
Yes, we think this program is very important. People over age 55 have the most difficulty finding any job. As a matter of fact—and I have to admit I did work for the federal government at one time—we found that even people over the age of 40 had greater difficulty finding work.
It's extremely important that we have a bridge somewhere between involuntary layoff.... People don't close down the fish plants or the logging industry or whatever it might be; the corporations do it for their financial benefit. But it leaves the working person alone.They may qualify for EI for a very limited period of time, so they need that bridging. It has to be a decent bridging; it cannot be a minimal amount, which barely keeps body and soul together.
So yes, we're very much in favour of that, and we would certainly support things like that.
Unfortunately, I don't know what Bill C-36 says, so I can't comment on it.