Mr. Speaker, we are talking math, and I suspect it was not a prerequisite when the Minister of Human Resources Development got his job.
My strength is not math either, but I can figure out this much mathematically. According to his own department, a $900 million reduction in UI premiums creates 25,000 full jobs. That is one job for every $36,000 in reductions. Using those same figures, the minister's $1.2 billion tax grab would kill close to 34,000 jobs in this country.
Will the minister confirm that this tax grab on part time workers is a job killer? And if he does not agree with our figures, maybe he could provide the House with his department's own research in this area.