Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Prime Minister. While the budget announced additional cuts of over $1.5 billion on the backs of the unemployed, the unemployment insurance account was heading toward a surplus of nearly $5 billion for 1995 alone. We must not forget that the government has not put a penny in the unemployment insurance fund since 1991. Worse yet, Ottawa is using the account surplus to fund new intrusions into training.
Does the Prime Minister acknowledge that increasing the unemployment insurance fund surplus by cutting benefits to the unemployed and using this surplus to fund new federal intrusions into manpower training is totally disgusting?