Mr. Speaker, at the suggestion of the Minister of Human Resources Development, we all waited for the budget to know the fate of the unanimous report proposing 17 improvements to the employment insurance plan.
The Minister of Finance approved only one recommendation.
How does the Minister of Human Resources Development explain her recovery of a mere $15 million of the $45 billion EI surplus? This is a real scandal. Does this not represent abject failure for her and a message to the unemployed that the government has deliberately sacrificed them?