Mr. Speaker, after a year and a half of delays, flying trial balloons, and countless rewrites, the Minister of Human Resources Development is finally bringing down his watered down UI reform proposals. He has even promised job opportunities and more jobs. Unfortunately while he has been playing politics a very alarming circumstance has occurred. Statistics Canada reports that last month the number of working Canadians fell by 44,000. That is five months of job growth down the drain. I wonder what is happening here.
My question to the minister is as follows. What if anything are the minister's UI proposals doing to stimulate job growth in the private sector?