Mr. Speaker, after making cuts to unemployment insurance of $5.5 billion over three years in his first budget-and the unemployed have not yet fully felt the effect of these cuts-the Minister of Finance is not letting up, cutting an additional 10 per cent from the unemployment insurance budget for next year.
Does the finance minister realize that these additional cuts he has announced for unemployment insurance will deprive the unemployed of at least $700 million more in 1996-97?