Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Finance.
An Info Update sent to Regional Directors of Canada Employment Centres shows disturbing figures. Out of $2,355 million worth of cuts, in 1994-95 and 1995-96, $630 million will come from the Maritimes and $735 million, each year, from Quebec. That is 60 per cent of unemployment insurance cuts for one third of the population.
How can the Minister argue that his government's priority is job creation, when its only strategy is an attack on 85 per cent of the unemployed, and moreover in the poorest provinces?