moved for leave to introduce Bill C-295, an act to amend the Employment Insurance Act 1997 (schedule I).
I thank the hon. member for Acadie—Bathurst for passing over the national issue in favour of an important social issue by choosing to support this bill, which is intended to restore to unemployment insurance its objective of ensuring unemployed people of a decent income while between jobs, particularly the seasonal workers who have to live through what is termed the spring gap, those ten weeks yearly when, as a result of the Liberal reform, we are unable to ensure hundreds of thousands of citizens of Quebec and Canada of a decent living.
(Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed)