Mr. Speaker, we voted against them because they were not the right changes to EI that needed to be done. More than one in four claimants exhaust their EI benefits before finding jobs. Now, with a crippling recession, it will only get worse. EI benefits need to be strengthened to help families when they need it most.
When will the government realize that it has failed to deliver on its promise to create jobs and start working with us to implement job creation and make EI more accessible to help Canadian families, instead of insulting them by telling them that they want to be on EI and--