Mr. Speaker, my colleague from Mississauga West talked about life insurance and employment insurance. I think he does not understand that workers did not adopt a life insurance plan.
The Liberal throne speech says that there was a time when losing one's job also meant immediate loss of income for workers and their families. Therefore Canadians created employment insurance. It was not life insurance. I think the member is smart enough to know that it is an employment insurance program, not life insurance. He should get the record straight.
He also talked about feeling bad about people making $39,000 a year and how it was difficult to live on that amount. I would like to see him in my area where people work for $8,000 or $12,000 a year.
I would like to have his opinion on that. Is he ready to recommend changes when people lose their employment insurance by the month of February because the fishery only starts in May and the woodcutters only start cutting in June?
What is his solution? Is it welfare? Is that how he wants to treat the workers in Timmins, Hearst, White River and Wawa, Ontario? Is that how he wants to treat the people in Ontario who have the same problem and whom I have visited personally? Would he suggest that those people are not the real workers of the country who participate in good economic development? Is he saying that those people abuse the system all the time?
He also mentioned the Atlantic provinces. Is that how disconnected they are? Do members know why sometimes people vote for the Liberals? It is because 35 days before the election they look like a bunch of NDP but the day after the election they become Liberals again. In Acadie—Bathurst, the people woke up and said to the Liberals that there was no place in the House of Commons for the Liberals. They put back another NDP and members know his name.