Mr. Speaker, it blows me away to see how incapable the Bloc Quebecois members are of doing their homework and reading the most elementary of studies.
The contributor-recipient ratio is not a good tool for measuring the efficiency of the system. The 58% of unemployed they refer to are people who never contributed to the employment insurance system. They are young people who are coming on the labour market but have not yet taken part in the labour market. They are self-employed workers, who are not covered, and for whom employment insurance was never intended. They are people who have been out of work for more than a year and have not contributed—