Mr. Speaker, I think the Bloc Quebecois is willing to do everything it can so this bill can be read the third time and passed in June. We are willing to put in the necessary time and effort. We have a few amendments to propose to the committee. We think it is extremely important.
The minister will have to be reasonable and to take into account the fact that the rules for proposing amendments have been considerably changed. That means that the work of the committee will have to be taken seriously, that the amendments proposed there will have to be looked at closely. It may not be possible. My colleague from Richmond—Arthabaska raised the charter issue. If there is a problem in that regard, we should take the time to examine it and to ensure that it can be overcome.
But I am certainly not forgetting, for example, that the government did not hesitate, during consideration of the bill on employment insurance—it is the current Minister for International Trade who was at human resources development when these amendments were passed—to impose special EI eligibility requirements for young people and for pregnant women, who have to work respectively 910 and 700 hours. It is now down to 600 to qualify, compared to 420 hours for a regular worker who is not young or pregnant. Therefore, if the government can discriminate against women and young people, maybe it can forget about the charter and discriminate a little less.
In the case of criminals, we certainly have to be careful, but I think we must not allow people to invoke the charter too easily either.