Mr. Speaker, I want to point out that this member has made some statements that are totally false.
For two years I was the critic and dealt a lot with the unemployment insurance fund. When he says that we do not make sugges-
tions I would like to refer him to Hansard and have him read Hansard . He says that the Bloc is not reading it; neither has he read Hansard .
If he would go back to 1994 and 1995 he would see the speeches I delivered in the House. There were 14 to 17 points in some of those speeches that provided the government with suggestions of what it could do to reform the unemployment insurance fund. To my knowledge very little of that advice was ever taken. If it had been taken the unemployment rate would be 1.5 per cent to 3 per cent lower that it is today. Those were excellent suggestions which have fallen on deaf ears. The government should take heed.
Has the unemployment fund not become a slush fund for some other government projects that have very little to do with insurance? We Reformers have a problem with this. The government was taking funds from EI and using them for things other than insurance. I do not think it can be denied that is the case.