Mr. Speaker, one of the most important developments has been as a result of the changes and amendments we made to the Unemployment Insurance Act last year. Close to 200,000 low income Canadians with children and who are on UI assistance now receive close to an additional $1,000 a year as a result of the reforms to the UI system. We differentiated between the basic benefit and the benefit based upon dependency.
It shows that when we can make serious reforms and look at it properly and constructively, we can really help poor people, not blow torch them, as the Reform Party wants to do.