Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister.
In its Atlantic fisheries adjustment program, the government will oblige fishermen to sign a contract requiring them to take training courses, go back to school or do community work. Otherwise they cannot receive benefits from the program. The Minister of Human Resources Development even confirmed that his reform could extend such a contract to all social programs from coast to coast.
I ask the Prime Minister to tell us if, under his reform, he intends to require the unemployed and welfare recipients to take courses and to work in order to collect the benefits to which they are entitled and I ask him to tell us whether he admits that it would now be illegal to apply such a contract to everyone.