Mr. Speaker, a picture is worth a thousand words. I have a mental picture of something I saw on the front page of the Journal de Montréal after the budget. It illustrated an article on the federal budget and its impact on the public with a picture of a hand containing a few coins totalling $1.33 a month. That was its impression of the budget, regardless of the area concerned.
I have a question for my colleague concerning employment insurance. They have helped themselves from the employment insurance fund—comprised of employers' and employees' contributions—to the tune of over $45 billion, and have returned to it $300 million, in other words six one-thousandths of the amount taken. There are plenty of terms that could be used by my colleagues and friends to describe this. What can the minister reply to this? Why have the 28 recommendations of the Standing Committee on Human Resources, Skills Development, Social Development and the Status of Persons with Disabilities not been implemented?