Mr. Speaker, my question is also for the Secretary of State for International Financial Institutions.
The proposed purchase of Met Life, an Ottawa institution, by Mutual Life has already led to layoff notices for hundreds of people and will lead to hundreds of more people losing their jobs within the next year.
The severance packages offered to these unfortunate people are far less generous than the average that have been ordered by the courts, well at the bottom range and even less for lower income workers.
What will the government do to make sure that these hundreds of people—