Eymard G. Corbin
Liberal
Mr. Eymard Corbin (Madawaska-Victoria):
Mr. Speaker, pursuant to the provisions of Standing Order 43, 1 ask for the unanimous consent of the House to move a motion dealing with an urgent matter of pressing necessity.
Considering that the Progressive Conservative government and the Minister of Employment and Immigration (Mr. Atkey) decided, according to his press release dated June 8, to order the promulgation of the last clauses of Bill C-14 on unemployment insurance so that they would be implemented on July 1, 1979, clauses which have an especially adverse effect on seasonal workers in northwest New Brunswick, contrary to what had been expected, I move, seconded by the hon. member for Westmorland-Kent (Mr. LeBlanc):
That the Minister of Employment and Immigration refrain from politicking at the expense of poor workers especially in the economic region of Madawaska, that he immediately take the required steps of which he is well aware to correct that serious social unfairness and grant to those workers the same advantages as those of the neighbouring constituency of Restigouche or Kent, for example, and in future when answering in the House that he state the whole truth in its real context, in accordance with his oath of office and with a view to living up to the principle of ministerial responsibility towards Parliament and the Canadian workers.
Subtopic: EMPLOYMENT
Sub-subtopic: REQUEST ALLEGED INJUSTICE TO MADAWASKA REGION WORKERS BE CORRECTED-MOTION UNDER S.O. 43