Mr. Speaker, at $550,000 a job, we can get two senators for that price.
Not only would this 450-page omnibus bill continue the raid on employment insurance, it is packed full of other measures that Conservatives want to hide from Canadians, like the Conservative private member's bill to strip social security from refugee claimants to federal judges to airports, and the elimination of the Canadian Polar Commission, dozens of laws changed with a single stroke of a pen.
Could the Minister of Finance answer just one question? What do any of these initiatives have to do with the budget?