Mr. Speaker, we are approaching the unemployment situation in a new way. We want to make sure there is an ethic of work in this country. We want to make sure that every hour counts.
Five hundred thousand workers now benefit from unemployment insurance, which we now call employment insurance. They are now covered by this scheme because part time workers are included in it.
This is part of the new labour market we are in where many people work only part time. We wanted to cover them and this is the reason we are doing it.