Mr. Speaker, what I will say is that the new employment insurance program makes work more attractive and is designed to encourage unemployed Canadians to go back to work, and that we want to help them through active measures. I think this is very important.
The envelopes I was referring to last week represent an $800 million improvement over what would have been the case had no changes been made to the employment legislation. By the year 2000, if the calculations are correct and they will be, approximately $2.7 billion in active measures will be available to unemployed Canadians who want to find jobs and re-enter the labour force.
This is therefore $800 million more than what would have been available otherwise.