Speech (House debate)

{
    "time": "2008-06-03 12:00:00",
    "attribution": {
        "en": "Mr. Bill Siksay",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "content": {
        "en": "<p data-HoCid=\"1132475\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I think the legislation provides part of that answer. They are not going to get any of that kind of assistance. The government is not going to make sure that the program even has the capacity to offer that kind of assistance if there is even a further downturn in the economy in Canada.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1132476\" data-originallang=\"en\">The program, we all know, is a shadow of its former self. This is not just this government that has been doing that. The Liberals loved to play fancy, fast and free with the unemployment insurance program. They started us down this road during the time that they were in power. In fact, back in the 1970s there was a crisis in the Trudeau government when a minister resigned over the first attempt to gut the unemployment insurance program at that time.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1132477\" data-originallang=\"en\">Many Canadians saw that the Liberals could not be trusted either at that time to ensure that there was a program there that was really going to provide workers and communities with the kind of assistance that was needed in the time of an economic downturn and in time of unemployment.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1132478\" data-originallang=\"en\">The program is a former shadow of itself and I do not think that the language that we use is strong enough or could be strong enough. Words like \u201cstealing\u201d from workers and \u201ctheft\u201d have all be used in this debate and I think they are entirely appropriately used in this debate because $52 billion has been taken from workers and employers in Canada, money that should have been used to ensure their economic security, to ensure their training, and it is gone.</p>",
        "fr": "<p data-HoCid=\"1132475\" data-originallang=\"en\">Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je crois que le projet de loi r\u00e9pond en partie \u00e0 cette question. Les personnes dont le d\u00e9put\u00e9 parle ne recevront pas ce type d'aide. Le gouvernement ne s'assurera pas que le programme a la capacit\u00e9 d'offrir ce type d'aide si le ralentissement \u00e9conomique au Canada se poursuit.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1132476\" data-originallang=\"en\">Comme nous le savons tous, le programme n'est plus que l'ombre de ce qu'il \u00e9tait. Le gouvernement n'est pas le seul \u00e0 bl\u00e2mer pour cette situation. Les lib\u00e9raux aimaient prendre des libert\u00e9s avec le r\u00e9gime d'assurance-ch\u00f4mage. Ils nous ont engag\u00e9s dans cette voie pendant leurs ann\u00e9es au pouvoir. En effet, dans les ann\u00e9es 1970, il y a eu une crise dans le gouvernement Trudeau lorsqu'un ministre a d\u00e9missionn\u00e9 \u00e0 la suite de la premi\u00e8re tentative d'\u00e9limination du r\u00e9gime d'assurance-ch\u00f4mage.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1132477\" data-originallang=\"en\">Beaucoup de Canadiens ont constat\u00e9 \u00e0 l'\u00e9poque qu'ils ne pouvaient pas compter sur les lib\u00e9raux pour mettre en place un programme qui fournirait r\u00e9ellement aux travailleurs et aux collectivit\u00e9s l'aide dont ils avaient besoin en cas de ralentissement \u00e9conomique et de ch\u00f4mage.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"1132478\" data-originallang=\"en\">Le programme n'est plus que l'ombre de ce qu'il \u00e9tait, et je ne crois pas que les termes que nous utilisons sont assez forts ou pourraient \u00eatre assez forts. On a parl\u00e9 de vol des employ\u00e9s et de vol tout court dans le cadre de ce d\u00e9bat. Je pense que ces termes sont utilis\u00e9s de fa\u00e7on compl\u00e8tement appropri\u00e9e dans ce d\u00e9bat, car on a enlev\u00e9 52 milliards de dollars aux travailleurs et aux employeurs canadiens. Cet argent aurait d\u00fb \u00eatre utilis\u00e9 afin d'assurer leur s\u00e9curit\u00e9 \u00e9conomique et leur formation, et il s'est volatilis\u00e9.</p>"
    },
    "url": "/debates/2008/6/3/bill-siksay-6/",
    "politician_url": "/politicians/bill-siksay/",
    "politician_membership_url": "/politicians/memberships/1264/",
    "procedural": false,
    "source_id": "2505498",
    "h1": {
        "en": "Government Orders",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "h2": {
        "en": "Budget Implementation Act, 2008",
        "fr": ""
    },
    "document_url": "/debates/2008/6/3/",
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    }
}