Mr. Speaker, I think it has already been made clear that I do not think very much of this document of the Canadian Labour Congress. It is simply not based on any proper or realistic analysis.
We have not decided yet exactly what the elements of our proposal will be, so how they can go about speculating on what the impacts will be is beyond me. I guess you need to be an economist for the CLC to figure that out.
I want to make one point very clear to the hon. member about the impacts. In the month of August, for which we have the most recent statistics, we know that the welfare caseload in Quebec dropped by 13,000. One of the reasons is because we are making real headway in getting people back to work. There were over 110,000 new jobs created in Quebec during that period of time.
We still say that the best way to deal with poverty and the best way to deal with unemployment is to help people get a job.