Mr. Speaker, in actual fact, the government did not invest $11.5 billion. What it did was cut $32.5 billion instead of $44 billion. We are talking cuts, not handouts.
Should the government's budgetary policies not be focusing on acting with the necessary fairness towards workers who pay EI premiums and allowing them to receive the benefits to which they are entitled rather than forcing them to help shoulder the cost of new programs that come under provincial jurisdiction?