There would be a lot to say on this, my friend. It is the Liberal's turn. If you want to speak, just rise. If you do not have anything to say, then stop. The unemployment insurance fund will suffer a 10 per cent cut again.
We are being told that there are fewer unemployed workers in Canada. It is just like a physician saying that there are fewer sick people in the hospital because they are all dead. People who are no longer on unemployment insurance are now on welfare. And the government is proud to have reduced unemployment.
How can unemployment be reduced? By creating employment or by reducing access to unemployment. The Liberals thought that it would be easier to reduce access to unemployment. They look at the statistics and say that there are fewer unemployed workers. They are magicians. Choquette, the famous magician, looks like an amateur compared to them.
They can make unemployed workers disappear in an instant; they just reduce access to unemployment insurance. No unemployment insurance, no unemployed; no unemployed, no unemployment. Easy. Again, it will cost Montreal millions of dollars, because there are more unemployed people in that city than in the four Maritime provinces combined. That is terrible.
They take on the unemployed, not unemployment. Yet, how often did the Liberals talk about this when they were the opposition? In Montreal, 29 per cent of families live below the poverty level. I suppose that in the next budget they will decide to reduce that to 15 per cent: the poverty level now being set at $20,000, they will drop it to $10,000 so that there will be fewer people living below the poverty level. That is Liberal magic. This is a hocus pocus government.
The red book contained a hidden promise: Vote for us and you will be in the red. That is exactly what we see happening. I have to say that it is a promise well kept, no doubt about it.
The Biosphere and the St. Lawrence Centre plan come to mind. What is happening with this plan? Two or three press conferences were held about it. Actually, under the Liberal strategy, nothing happens before it has been announced ten times in press conferences. Therefore, it will be announced regularly over the next few months and then it will get under way.