Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Labour.
The minister will no doubt recall that her former provincial Liberal colleague, André Bourbeau, had repeatedly asked the federal government to ease the criteria of the program for older worker adjustment in order to reduce the number of older Montreal workers unfairly excluded from this program.
Does the minister acknowledge, as her former colleague did, that the rules of the POWA are too restrictive and that the program fails to satisfactorily meet the needs of older workers who have been laid off?