Mr. Speaker, my question is for the Minister of Human Resources Development.
Foster is a 60 year old man from Regina who has been unable to work since having two strokes in the late nineties. Advocates working with him say he has been maliciously harassed by her department. After four years of denied applications and appeals, poverty and illness, Foster was finally advised that the review tribunal had accepted his appeal. Yet incredibly, he has been told by her department that it will overturn the appeal.
Why is the minister taking aim at the most vulnerable and impoverished people in society? Will the minister ask her officials to back off?