Mr. Speaker, yesterday the Minister for International Trade made the statement that the transfer of manpower training to Quebec three years ago was specifically aimed at workers in the softwood lumber sector.
This is not, however, a matter of sending these workers back to school to make plumbers out of them, but rather of helping them survive a trade war for which they have no responsibility whatsoever, until they can get back to work.
What is keeping the minister from convincing her colleagues that the EI system needs to be changed and additional weeks of benefits made available to these workers to prevent them from descending into total poverty?