Mr. Speaker, the measures in the budget will not add one additional person who was previously excluded from EI to those who will be able to get some help even though they have paid for it for years.
The Parliamentary Budget Officer delivered another blow to the budget today. He suggested that the jobs that are going to be contained in the stimulus are 20% less than the government reported just last week. That means that the jobs he is promising to create in his budget will total less than half of the jobs that are going to be lost in this country over the next year.
Why is the Prime Minister leaving people behind instead of taking action to get them--