Mr. Speaker, first I want to congratulate the member for Winnipeg Centre on his speech, which proved to be very informative. I was pleased to learn that Manitoba has a law similar to the one that is proposed here. Some provisions may be different, but the legislation obviously leads to the same results as the ones we wish to obtain through the bill proposed by my colleague from the Bloc.
The member for Winnipeg Centre made an analogy—very similar to the one we heard from the member for Joliette—regarding the whole issue of poverty, crime and safety. If I understood correctly, he made a connection between the issue before us today and poverty. I take that as an invitation for us to keep in mind, when we take measures such as the ones we are contemplating, namely reversing the burden of proof with regard to the proceeds of crime, that it should not detract us from dealing with the situations that lead to crime.
In this regard, the people who are the most vulnerable to crime are the poor. For example, youth, who are reached in school yards or elsewhere and who are tempted to become the conduit for organized crime, particularly in drug trade, are people who, to a large extent, are not only interested in making money as such, but are also motivated by the fact that they are poor.
One of the measures that increase poverty—I know that my NDP colleague is very sensitive to this issue, because his party has spoken many times about it—is the employment insurance issue and the restrictive measures brought in by Liberal governments over the years. These measures have made families poorer and have ensured that we saw an increase in poverty among youth before Christmas.
I would like the member's comments on this. If I have understood his concern well, yes, we must vote in favour of the bill before us today, but the government must go further. It must correct the distortions created by the employment insurance measures to allow families that contributed to the employment insurance fund to get their fair share of EI benefits.
I would like to hear him on this.