Mr. Speaker, during the ice storm the Minister of Human Resources Development announced, with much pomp but little in the way of results, $45 million in assistance, $25 million of it in Quebec, in the form of normal federal programs of the targeted wage subsidy and job creation partnership type.
In order to really help storm victims, will the minister undertake to relax the criteria for the targeted wage subsidies program so that wages are 100 per cent reimbursed by the federal government, since community organizations, businesses and municipalities do not have the financial means to assume their current share?