Mr. Speaker, the document Agenda: Jobs and Growth goes well beyond that since it says, and I quote: ``A social security system that is financially unsustainable is a dead end''. They are talking about financial sustainability, Mr. Speaker!
As it had already done in last February's budget, instead of addressing the causes, the government has obviously chosen to attack the unemployed by proposing measures that restrict access to unemployment insurance. Yet, in Quebec alone, the 1993 cuts to the unemployment insurance program forced 22,000 unemployed to go on welfare.
In these conditions, how can the minister claim that, by restricting access to unemployment insurance, he will give to the unemployed the hope and confidence they so badly need when he has not proposed any real job creation measures?