Mr. Speaker, I have a question for the member for Laurentides—Labelle and I would like to thank her for her comments.
Before asking my question, I would like this House to be aware that the former government, the Liberal government, had introduced the same bill in this House during the last Parliament.
The previous Liberal government opposed this bill as well and I would like to remind all members in the House of that opposition. The parliamentary secretary to the minister of human resources and skills development in the previous Liberal government said that the virtually identical bill that was presented in that Parliament had rash, badly thought out changes and would create a situation which would “lead to the encouragement of people to become dependent on EI benefits” and put the emphasis on “unemployment rather than employment, and in some cases actually acting as a disincentive to work”.
My question for the member from the Bloc is whether or not she thinks the Liberals will continue to show their opposition to this bill in front of the House or whether she thinks they will change their position and join her in supporting her private member's bill?