Mr. Speaker, the Quebec Minister of Income Security recently highlighted the negative effects of the Liberal government's cuts to the unemployment insurance system. One of them was that, as a direct result of the cuts to unemployment insurance, between 6,000 and 8,000 households in Quebec will be forced to join the welfare lines each month.
My question is for the Minister of Finance. Will he confirm that the additional $2.4 billion in cuts to the unemployment insurance fund, of which $700 million is for Quebec alone, will only increase the number of families collecting unemployment insurance which have to switch over to welfare?