Mr. Speaker, if the minister refers to 20,000 more people on welfare as small minutiae, details and figures, in a so-called period of prosperity, at a time the government is about to cut welfare subsidies in the Canada social transfer, what will it be like in the next recession? This is unacceptable.
Will the minister finally admit that further draconian cuts he is about to make in unemployment insurance will put even more families on welfare and make the budgetary problems of the Quebec government even worse?