Mr. Speaker, the paper contains a series of very important choices for Canadians. The most important is: are we prepared to invest in helping people get back to work? Can we help them improve their education, their skills? Can we give them the incentives to go back to work by offering an earning supplement to an employer? Can we help them start their own jobs and start their own businesses?
Those are the key issues. We are not taking away from the unemployed. We are giving to the unemployed. We are giving them hope, we are giving them resources, we are re-equipping them for the new economy so they can get jobs.
We are not standing as an elite, as the members of the opposition do. They want to see people stay on unemployment insurance. They want to see people stay unemployed. They have no interest in getting them back to work.