Mr. Speaker, the hon. member has totally and completely misunderstood the major fundamental thrust.
This has been debated for many years. We have finally said the old system which purely provided benefits was not sufficient to help people get back to work. We have shifted those resources into effective measures of employment, things like the self-employment measure, things like the development of a wage supplement to provide for small business.
We are using those measures to help people get back to work, to make up those hours because we happen to believe that everyone would rather work than simply stay on benefits. We are now giving them the means to achieve that goal.