Mr. Speaker, as I said, we are not yet free from the economic consequences of the pandemic. We need to work together to help those sectors still struggling get through the crisis. We will need these women, men and businesses when the pandemic ends.
The bill includes targeted measures and provides for predictability. That is good. However, it disregards the whole issue of self-employed workers, including those in the cultural sector, which is particularly troubling for us.
Why extend the measures for some sectors and abandon self-employed workers in the cultural sector?
We are looking at this bill and wondering whether we can even support it in principle. Why abandon these women and men in the cultural sector?
This is a serious problem.