Mr. Speaker, excessive premiums—in the words of management and the employees themselves—significant cuts to benefits and restrictive eligibility requirements enable the government to pocket a surplus of $135 million a week.
With the arrival of the so-called spring gap, a period in which many unemployed workers will be short of funds because cheques will no longer be coming in, how can the minister responsible for the unemployed in this country allow the Minister of Finance to siphon off the surplus in a fund that should be the responsibility of the Minister of Human Resources?