Mr. Speaker, it is a real disservice to criticize a program which is providing important benefits for close to 30,000 Canadians as a disastrous experiment.
We are giving an opportunity to people whose industry has collapsed to find not only a way of maintaining income benefits for their families, but also to begin to find some way to make adjustments to new jobs and new employment opportunities, a program that has been in effect for nine months.
It constantly amazes me that the Reform Party is so anxious to overturn and discredit initiatives designed to help Canadians deal with their immediate problems. It shows that whatever notion there is about Reform, it has nothing to do with investing in people.