Mr. Speaker, you will have noted our colleague's high degree of social concern from his question and I want to thank him for it.
I think that, if we were living in a normal country, a country committed to showing greater solidarity with the workers, the government would have taken this money and used it to implement full employment policies. What is dishonest about the government's decision is that it gives the impression that cutting UI will reduce this government's debt, when in fact, since 1990, the government has nothing to do with UI, except for administration that it does not pay for naturally.
I think we should consider, and urge a number of organized bodies such as the labour movement, with which I understand you are rather closely associated, to consider legal action to have the courts overturn the government's decision to withdraw from the financing of UI while at the same time continuing to deprive workers of services to which they are entitled.
I think that, all together, in this House, we should try to figure out if these shameful and unacceptable measures could not be invalidated through legal action.