Mr. Speaker, we have heard a great deal about the need for change during the debates of the last several weeks.
Perhaps the most important change we need to make is to get ourselves into having a job system for the 21st century that will reach out to the many people who have been unemployed for long periods of time and try to create the framework, the context and the resources to help them get good jobs to help economic development in the regions.
One way we can make that change is to shift from an unemployment insurance program designed 50 years ago to an employment insurance program designed for now and the next century. The real interest of the high unemployment areas is to get a good job creation system in the country. That is what we intend to do.