Madam Speaker, we heard the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance a few minutes ago admit that he did not have a sweet clue as to how many people had been disqualified of the 106,000 who received that letter demanding that they requalify. One minute later the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Human Resources Development stood up said and acknowledged that 30,000 claimants had been cut off as a result of that demand to go through hoops and loops to requalify for this tax benefit. At least she has done her homework I guess.
I have heard now from two parliamentary secretaries in a row that it was not the intent of the government to disqualify these people. Furthermore, the Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister of Finance said that people should take it on good faith and that as a result of the new proposed changes coming forth they would not be disqualified or punished.
How can the government expect people to take it on faith that the new proposed, more restrictive measures being introduced are not going to hurt them, when the government said that it was not the intent to disqualify anybody as a result of those 106,000 letters and the--