Mr. Speaker, the government could not be more out of touch with the needs of seasonal industries. The minister did not anticipate that her reform would overload SMEs with job applications, which is counter-productive.
She defends her new electronic system, which encourages unemployed people back home to travel 31 km by rowboat to work on Isle-aux-Coudres. She ignores the fact that the Quebec tourism industry association has criticized the reform and has urged her to suspend it. She is dismantling the human resource base of many industries, including the forestry industry.
She must live in a parallel universe if she believes that destroying employment insurance is a good thing for workers. Will she suspend her botched reform today?