Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Human Resources Development.
On Saturday, more than 5,000 people from Quebec and New Brunswick, including Acadia, rallied in Rivière-du-Loup as 117 churches in eastern Quebec rang their bells to protest the proposed unemployment insurance reform. The archbishop of the Rimouski diocese himself recently took a stand against the plans concerning
seasonal workers, which he described as a serious threat to the very survival of the regions.
In light of the massive opposition to the unemployment insurance reform and, particularly in the regions, to those rules that severely penalize seasonal workers, does the minister not agree that the best thing to do would be to withdraw this bill and draft a new one in partnership with those concerned, providing for a true reform of the unemployment insurance system?