moved for leave to introduce Bill C-230, an act to amend the Unemployment Insurance Act (training and self-employment).
Mr. Speaker, the main purpose of the bill I wish to table today is to allow recipients of unemployment insurance benefits to start a course of training that will help them create their own employment and thus put an end to their dependency on unemployment insurance, or to enable people who are now receiving unemployment insurance benefits to start their own business, while continuing to receive unemployment insurance benefits for the period to which they are entitled.
Mr. Speaker, I table this bill in the hope that it will receive the support of members on both sides of the House. Thank you.
(Motions deemed adopted and bill read the first time and ordered to be printed.)