Mr. Speaker, yesterday, the Leader of the Government in the House of Commons said that employment insurance creates “incentives for people to be unemployed.” We hear the same type of comments from his colleague, the Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, who thinks that employment insurance is too lucrative.
Does the Prime Minister agree with his ministers? Does he believe that employment insurance provides people with an incentive to be unemployed?
Does the Prime Minister agree that employment insurance is, to quote his House leader, “an incentive for people to be unemployed”?