Mr. Speaker, when the minister talks of getting Canadians back to work, we cannot forget that, for more than two years, the government in power has done absolutely nothing to get Canadians back to work, except to cut among the poor and the unemployed. This is what has happened.
The minister cannot deny this. Given that the level of employment in Canada has hardly budged and the enormous cuts he is making to unemployment insurance, will he admit, therefore, that, far from giving Canadians the dignity of work as he calls it, he is hitting them, pushing them towards welfare and condemning them to poverty? Because that is his plan.