Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister of Human Resources Development was boasting that women were the primary beneficiaries of his employment insurance reform.
One might say the minister is living on another planet. Women's groups have criticized this reform, which is leaving them poorer.
Will the minister recognize that while an additional 500,000 people, primarily women, are contributing to employment insurance, women, we learned from his department, are receiving $300 million less than last year in benefits?