Mr. Speaker, last month, 68,000 jobs were lost in British Columbia. Yesterday, Canfor cut another 700, compounding an already dire situation in B.C., which in December had a 33% increase in EI recipients, the largest in Canada.
As Canada suffers from what is clearly structural unemployment, the government merely extends EI by five weeks, and that will not cut it.
When will the government admit that its EI plan is failing to protect Canadian workers?