Mr. Speaker, eligibility criteria for employment insurance may be tougher for young people.
However, we on this side of the House are not trying to make it easier for young people to collect employment insurance, but to ensure that they stay in school as long as possible, benefit from the youth employment strategy and have access to higher education and knowledge. We have greater ambitions for young Canadians.
The Bloc Quebecois basically wants us to encourage young people to leave school as early as possible by making it too easy to collect employment insurance. This would not be good for the future of young Canadians.