May I also add, Madam Zarac, that it was very welcome to see the expansion of access to EI training in this budget. The fact is, it is desperately needed, so it needed to be expanded. But the truth is, given that we've just seen a 16% increase in the number of EI beneficiaries who are male, the men are going to come into the system first, and access to EI spots is going to be taken up by those who came in through the door first and those who get most access. So the types of training spots that are there are going to be, just by virtue of who's getting in through the door and when, taken up more by men than by women--assuming that women were even getting into the system at the same rate, which they're not.
On February 24th, 2009. See this statement in context.