Mr. Speaker, two and a half million Canadians remember that he said the same thing about income trusts.
The Prime Minister claims that 80% of eligible unemployed Canadians get EI benefits, but that misses the point. The point is those eligibility rules are too tight for today's reality. They were designed at the beginning of an unprecedented surge in economic growth, which lasted more than a decade. However, the surge is over and the growth has stopped. The rules do not work any more and the recession is on the Conservative watch.
Will there be a fiscal update and will the Conservatives fix EI?