Mr. Speaker, I would like to congratulate the member for Shefford on his fine speech. He took the time to prepare well so that he could speak on behalf and in the name of working people. He concluded by saying that this is a good bill. It is good, but not excellent.
There is a stage that it must still go through, namely consideration by the parliamentary committee where the opposition parties will present amendments. We will see how much goodwill the minister has after the Bloc Québécois makes amendments to improve the situation of employees in bankruptcy cases.
It was said that this is a step forward and that the minister introduced this bill. The department that created this loosely knit Bill C-55 has dropped a few stitches. We are going to fix that and make a few amendments in committee. Then we will see how much good faith the government has. My colleague in the Liberal Party just said that they consulted widely and listened. However, this bill does not correspond exactly with what workers want in case of bankruptcy.
Wages should be protected. Some people have sacrificed weeks and even months of wages and found themselves facing bankruptcy. Their wages were completely lost. An employee's pension fund should be protected, that is to say, the part paid by the employee and the employer. This is something that they negotiated in collective agreements.
We should ensure that people have immediate access to employment insurance, with no waiting period. We should also make sure that POWA, the program for older worker adjustment, applies right away insofar as training or temporary assistance is concerned while people wait for their pension entitlement. One hundred percent of everything these people have invested over many years in the company pension fund must go in. It must be placed in a specific fund, a guaranteed fund, and paid out at 100%.
I would like to ask the member for Shefford my question. I see that 10 minutes are not enough in view of all his knowledge, research and dedication to working people. The member for Shefford could easily have given us a 40-minute presentation. But he was allowed only ten minutes. I would like him to explain the essence of the amendments he wants to make in order to fix Bill C-55 and make it a real bill for the working people of Quebec.