Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Human Resources Development.
As a result of the measures proposed in the minister's bill, UI coverage for workers will be reduced even further. In 1990, 77 per cent of unemployed workers qualified for UI. This proportion has since dropped to less than 50 per cent, and the minister's reform will reduce it even further.
Does the minister not agree that, as the Canadian Labour Congress pointed out in its analysis of his reform, the new UI program will protect only one out of three unemployed workers?