Mr. Speaker, my question is directed to the Minister of Human Resources Development. According to a study carried out for the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, unemployment cost the Canadian economy more than $109 billion in 1993 and governments alone absorbed $47 billion of the cost of unemployment. The authors of the study are asking the government to put in place a pro-active employment policy.
Will the minister admit that the timid employment recovery measures proposed by the government are not enough just to put 1.5 million unemployed people back to work and reduce the intolerable cost of unemployment which is now $109 billion?