Mr. Speaker, I would first like to congratulate my colleague from Mercier for her speech. In the last session, she worked with us on Standing Committee on Human Resources Development. Clearly her heart is with the unemployed. She is still very much aware, she experiences it, she still talks about it and she moves us.
I wish she could continue. I imagine there is no point asking the House for unanimous consent to allow her to continue longer, but I will offer her time.
I would like the hon. member to educate the Liberals a little about the system, the $39,000, the cutoff point. Before it was $43,000. But I think there was something more hidden away in all that.
Was it not also to try to staunch the flow of money from out of the system, since now the limit is not $43,000 but $39,000. Is it not bad enough that the Liberals are double dipping?
On the one hand, they set up a procedure that costs them less and, on the other, they establish a limit. I would ask the hon. member to continue on this.