Mr. Speaker, I am very pleased to see that the Reform Party is now hinting that maybe we should make it easier to give benefits to Canadians. I do not know exactly what is the Reform position. It is the first time I have heard such a statement from the Reform Party which normally thinks we are not tough enough on unemployed Canadians and that we should have even more difficult access to the employment insurance aspect.
In the case of the woman he raised, she did not have the number of hours to qualify. It is pretty obvious that if a worker has not reached the number of hours to be covered by the system at this stage, they cannot have unemployment benefits.
When she has worked the additional 52 hours she needs to qualify, whether in this job or some other job, she will be covered by the employment insurance system because every hour counts and we will add it to what she has already worked.