Mr. Speaker, I listened to the member's remarks and noticed that he wanted to make some serious cuts to the social security program spending.
I have always believed that our responsibility in this Chamber is not to spend all of our time focused on those who are advantaged but to primarily make sure that governance always has a focus on those in our community who are disadvantaged.
I want to read directly from the taxpayers' budget in brief. Under unemployment insurance cuts which is currently $15.6 billion the member is proposing a cut of $3.4 billion by the end of the third year.
Does the member honestly feel that it is good public policy when people are in such a very difficult circumstance of not having a job to take almost a 22 per cent decrease-those are the member's own calculations-from those people who are going through a very difficult period, specifically being unemployed? Is that good public policy?