Mr. Speaker, I thank my hon. colleague for his speech on the budget implementation bill.
He just replied to a Conservative colleague by talking about the number of things in this bill and the differences between each of them. As parliamentarians, we are forced to vote on all of these things together, rather than vote on each proposal individually.
I would like to take a moment to talk about the proposal regarding refugees. Would my colleague like to comment on the new provisions the government wants to bring in regarding refugees, who will find it harder to access social assistance programs in the provinces?
These people fled threatening situations in their own countries to settle in Canada, so it is unfortunate to see the government treating them so poorly.
What does my colleague think of that measure and of all the measures in the bill?