Madam Speaker, I congratulate the hon. member for Mercier, who has left her mark as a remarkable unionist. She speaks of workers with the voice of experience.
We are talking about $30 billion in surpluses: $14.9 billion in the public service superannuation plan, $2.4 billion in the RCMP plan and $12.9 billion in the Canadian Forces plan. That is a lot of money.
When we buy life insurance, we do not like it if, at some point, the company changes the rules. This is money taken from the pockets of these people. My colleague put it very well: the government is indirectly setting up—it is even sneakier in a way—some kind of committee that will not be independent.
Money was taken from the employment insurance fund, and the minister opposite must have some regrets about that. He could at least make amends by putting some money back in the workers' pockets. In my riding of Matapédia—Matane, workers come to my office and say “What is going on? In the spring, we are three or four weeks short”.
Can we draw a comparison between this and the theft in the employment insurance—