Mr. Speaker, the minister has developed the annoying habit of responding to our demands regarding employment insurance by talking only of active measures that are supposed to return people to the labour market.
Does the minister not understand that for the bush pilot and forestry worker who are unemployed because there is too much snow in the woods or for the fisher unable to fish because of the seasonal nature of his work, active measures are not enough, and the employment insurance plan must provide these workers with supplementary income during the off-season?