Mr. Speaker, the Conservatives have presided over 400,000 people being thrown out of work, including miners who are here on the Hill today. Some 400,000 people have been thrown out of work, but 60% of those people, when they try to get help from EI, cannot get it.
The government has already said that it is prepared to backstop the EI fund. These workers have paid into the EI fund year after year. Why is the government preventing so many of them from getting the help they need when their families need it?