Mr. Speaker, I want to tell the hon. member for Kamouraska—Rivière-du-Loup—Témiscouata—Les Basques that his predecessor, Maurice Duplessis, was opposed to unemployment insurance and felt we had no business in this area. Such were the orthodox and dogmatic ideologies of those people.
I looked at the employment insurance figures.
I also note that, in recent years, unemployment has dropped from 11.4% to 9%. This is how we measure the system's efficiency.
I can also tell you that we are closely monitoring our bold and modern reform. We will talk again about all this in January.