Madam Speaker, I want to thank the hon. member who spoke before me. I found his presentation very philosophical. I would like to tell him about a very practical case that I dealt with today in my office, which reflects some of the details of this reform. After hearing about the proposed reforms on television, one of my constituents gave me some historical background. I will read it to you and I will certainly ask questions on this.
To put things in their historical context, if your parents or your grandparents had mentally handicapped relatives, they would have been put to work on the farm. Nowadays, with automation, these people have become vulnerable to unemployment. How many people in Canada are handicapped and cannot work because of a deficiency? Whatever their handicap, many places will not hire them.
Is this new reform penalizing these people who want to work but were abandoned by the industry? Many of them are, through no fault of their own, permanently unemployed. There are many of them, more than we may think. Do you think that this reform will include some mechanism to prevent these vulnerable people from being penalized by the proposed measures? That is the question I want to ask my distinguished colleague.