Mr. Speaker, I object to the unparliamentary language of the Parti Quebecois member, who is always pushing a very specific agenda that has nothing to do with helping people improve their situation and working with us constructively, because the worse things get, the happier he is.
All these people are trying to prove is that the country is not in very good shape, and he knows it.
According to the opposition member's logic, people who have never worked or paid EI premiums in their life are entitled to EI benefits. The way the member sees it, we should be paying EI benefits to people who have received severance pay. He wants us to pay—