Mr. Speaker, I cannot believe what we are hearing.
It is not just the Gaspé that is being attacked.
Alain Cormier and his wife, two of my constituents who work at the Village Historique Acadien, learned that a pilot project that added five weeks of unemployment in their area ended on September 15, 2012. This means that neither he nor his wife will have a damned penny to pay their bills in the spring of 2013.
And they are not alone. All seasonal workers will suffer the same fate.
Why will the minister not extend the pilot project? In the spring, they will not have a damned penny to their names to pay their bills.