Mr. Speaker, as I have stated repeatedly in the House, our government is concerned by the drop in participation in the employment insurance system over the last few months and the last few years.
This tendency has existed for the last ten years. It has reached a point where I have asked Statistics Canada to tell us why the participation rate has fallen over the last few years. I hope the information we obtain will be useful to us, in October, so that we can understand the problem better and take appropriate steps to correct the situation.