Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Human Resources Development.
For the past two years the Minister of Human Resources Development has been delaying every meaningful initiative in his department. Much promised reforms to social security have been gathering dust. The white paper on aging is growing older by the day. To top it off, this weekend we learned that changes to the UI system will be delayed until after the Quebec referendum. The
system was in a mess two years ago when the minister took over the department and it is in even more of a mess now.
Why all of the delays? Is it because of the referendum or is the minister just unable to come up with any innovative ways of solving the problems in our social programs?