Mr. Speaker, between 5,000 and 10,000 women and men came here to ask the Liberal government to fulfil its election promises regarding the poor. The Liberal Party had promised it would not cut into social programs, but it did.
It had promised to create over 150,000 day care spaces, but it also reneged on this commitment. The Bloc Quebecois will lead a fierce campaign to find out what this government did with the money earmarked for day care services.
This morning, the Bloc Quebecois pledged to work in close co-operation with the new president of the National Action Committee on the Status of Women, Joan Grant-Cummings, to make sure this government targets poverty, not the poor.
The Bloc will see that the message conveyed by the protesters this past weekend is heard, since this government tends to turn a deaf ear to the needy.
The outgoing NAC president, Sunera Thobani, said that women are not asking for charity but equality. The Liberal Party must get the message.