Mr. Speaker, according to figures released by the Department of Finance , as at February 28, 2002, nearly $4 billion from the EI fund had been redirected, in this past fiscal year alone, to the government's consolidated revenue fund. This means that not one red cent of it will benefit the unemployed directly.
Do not these figures speak clearly to the fact that, year in and year out, the bulk of Canada's debt is being paid by the unemployed, thanks to the cynicism of the Minister of Finance?