Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Human Resources Development.
Women who work part time, and have to work twice as long to get half the benefits, and mothers who are no longer entitled to maternity benefits—these are the victims of the unemployment insurance reforms, one of the most devastating offensives for impoverishing women.
How can the minister claim that the reform is good for women when 10,000 fewer women were entitled to maternity leave in 1997?