Mr. Speaker, before Oral Question Period, the member for Chicoutimi presented quite clearly the need for the government to extend the small weeks program, if only out of a sense of fairness, compassion and responsibility toward people with less income.
I would nevertheless like to ask the member a question. He knows that we support the Conservative Party motion. With this small weeks pilot project, we have realized that many regions in Quebec and Canada are not currently covered by the plan and should be.
The problem does not necessarily lie just in the high unemployment regions. In low unemployment regions as well, people not covered by the plan are currently living with the effects of not having the small weeks plan.
This may be the best example of the need to extend the plan in regions of high unemployment. Would it not be a good thing if we were, on reflection, to consider extending the plan to all regions of Canada?