Mr. Speaker, we can also talk about cities.
People in the cultural sector are sometimes unemployed between contracts and occasionally have to claim employment insurance benefits.
Thirty-five thousand people in Quebec and 132,000 people in Canada make a living from the cultural industry. For example, Toronto composer Mychael Danna, who won an Oscar last night for his music in Life of Pi, has a job in the cultural industry. The same is true of artistic director Jim Erickson, from Salt Spring Island, British Columbia, who also won an Oscar for his set decoration in Lincoln.
With the EI reform, the Conservatives will force film industry workers to change jobs.
Why threaten our film industry?