Mr. Speaker, the Minister of Human Resources Development should try to put himself in the shoes of ordinary Canadians. He gave us the example of a woman from Sydney.
I will try to be brief. In a region such as the Gaspé Peninsula, which is severely affected by TAGS, where active measures are sorely lacking, where nothing is being done and which is being deprived of $50 million because of reduced benefits and reduced eligibility, how does the minister think that people can find new jobs? Why can he not consider restoring some fairness in the system?
I would like to quote from his leader. I will be very brief. The quote is from a letter sent in 1993 to a group called Action-Chômage, in which the current Prime Minister described the measures put forward by the Conservatives as being very coercive.
“While they seem to show compassion on the eve of the election, they are forgetting the names of the victims”.