Mr. Speaker, $150 million is three one-thousandths of the $45 billion surplus that was stolen from the unemployed.
After four difficult years of waiting, the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development is announcing extremely inadequate transitional measures, on the eve of an election in an attempt to win votes, but the reality remains: the government is leaving thousands of unemployed people to fend for themselves. Not one more unemployed person will qualify for benefits.
How can the government, which took another $3 billion out of the pockets of the unemployed last year, have the nerve to announce a measly $270 million over two years in temporary measures that are far from meeting the needs in any permanent way?