Mr. Speaker, I understand very well my colleague's anger because she lives in a region similar to mine, with many people on employment insurance, seasonal workers, people who work very hard to earn a living to provide for their families.
Now we find out that this department, which keeps such a tight rein on the unemployed, has set recovery quotas for each Canada Employment Center. Failure to meet the quotas resulted in employees losing their job. I am not making this up. This is what departmental memos are saying.
On the other hand, when it comes to the transitional jobs fund, the government does not hesitate to help itself—this is the way Liberals do things—to taxpayers' money to win elections, particularly in the riding of Saint-Maurice, by putting in place an unacceptable system in our society.
This is the sort of attitude that was witnessed 50, 60 or 70 years ago. I trust the hon. member for Waterloo—Wellington would be well inspired to read the documentation. It contains overwhelming evidence, and we can table it. We are calling for an independent public inquiry because we are sure that if the facts come out the Liberal government will look so bad that it will lose the next federal election.