Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Human Resources Development announced that his five-cent reduction in UI premiums on $100 of insurable earnings would create 24,000 full time jobs in Canada. More money in Canadians' pockets equals more jobs. It is as simple as that.
We have to wonder why then the Minister of Human Resources Development is taking a seven per cent tax bite out of the pay cheques of part time workers in this country.
If a token UI premium reduction creates 25,000 full time jobs, how many jobs will be lost when the government takes $1.2 billion out of the pockets of part time workers?