Mr. Speaker, agricultural producers are paying the price for the Conservatives' ill-considered employment insurance reform because they depend on seasonal employment. Life is hard enough for farmers as it is. Since 2007, 22,000 family farms have had to pack it in.
The employment insurance reform, which will force their seasonal workers to accept other jobs that pay less, is one more barrier to growth in that industry.
How many more farms will have to pull the plug before the Conservatives realize that their bad decisions are hurting farmers?