Mr. Speaker, regarding the issue of fisheries and the Atlantic groundfish strategy, the Minister of Human Resources Development accused us earlier of wanting to keep fishers in a state of dependency because we are asking the government to help them.
Such comments from the minister are worrisome, because the last time he discussed the issue, he decided to exclude 60% of all unemployed people from the program.
Are we to expect that, under the pretext of implementing active measures, the minister will deny 60% of workers in the fishing industry any government assistance, as he did with the unemployed?