Mr. Speaker, the Liberals are making it more difficult to be a young person with hope. In Regina-Lumsden more and more unemployment insurance claimants are rejected because of the unfair changes to UI.
These individuals cannot find full-time work and are forced to take seasonal or part-time jobs. When these jobs dry up they do not qualify for UI; they go on the province's welfare rolls instead. They are not lazy. They are underemployed because there are simply not enough full-time jobs to go around.
The Government of Saskatchewan addressed the issue of unemployment in its recent budget with a job creation program. Unfortunately the federal budget will mean more unemployment for Saskatchewan and more people dependent on welfare.
The changes to UI simply offload federal costs to the provinces and continue the Tory tradition of disguising how many unemployed people there really are by shifting them to welfare.
The Liberal government does not get it. The unemployed do not want to be unemployed. They only wanted one thing from this government: real jobs. Instead they got snow jobs.