Translation of "Concealed unemployment " (English → French) :

– (EL) Mr President, the European Union's permanent preoccupation, at the level of communications alone of course, with people with disabilities, forms part of the effort to conceal the tragic reality, which is that there is 90% unemployment in the European Union – and not 70% as the leaders assert, with a dramatic increase in unemployed people with disabilities, in conjunction with a dramatic reduction in disabled children attending special schools or parallel departments in recent years.

– (FR) The recitals conceal a situation which, overall, is disastrous, characterised in all the countries concerned by widening social and regional chasms and a vast increase in poverty and unemployment. Unemployment is the only one of these points to be raised.

At 5:40 p.m., pursuant to Standing Order 45, the House resumed consideration of the motion of Mr. Martin (Minister of Finance), seconded by Mr. Gray (Leader of the Government in the House of Commons and Solicitor General of Canada), — That this House approves in general the budgetary policy of the Government (Ways and Means Proceedings No. 15) The House proceeded to the taking of the deferred recorded division on the amendment of Mr. Loubier (Saint-Hyacinthe–Bagot), seconded by Mr. Pomerleau (Anjou–Rivière-des-Prairies), — That the motion be amended by deleting all the words after the word “That” and substituting the following: “the budget statement by the Minister of Finance be rejected by the House of Commons because it: unilaterally main ...[+++]tains major reductions in transfer payments to the provinces in the fields of postsecondary education, health and social assistance, while intruding in areas of exclusive provincial jurisdiction, particularly by creating the Canada Foundation for Innovation from money earmarked for the provinces, introducing a national child tax benefit system, and setting up pilot projects filled with national unity propaganda in the field of health and social programs; proposes no tangible job creation measures, does not substantially reduce Unemployment Insurance contribution rates, or improve protection for unemployed persons, which has been greatly reduced by Employment Insurance; conceals its lack of action in creating jobs and fighting poverty, knowingly reducing effectiveness in these areas and distributing electoral gifts around Canada and Quebec; does not include an in-depth reform of the tax treatment of businesses or individuals, for example, by maintaining benefits for large corporations and rich Canadians; and introduces no measures to compensate the Quebec government for the 1991 harmonization of its sales tax with the federal GST, although Quebec would be eligible for this compensation in light of the $1 billion being paid to t ...

[Translation] Mr. Michel Gauthier (Roberval, BQ): Mr. Speaker, are we to understand that, if the Minister of Human Resources Development is going to so much trouble to conceal from the unemployed, the unemployed in Quebec in particular, that they will have to face the music, to use the Prime Minister's phrase, with the reform being planned for them, it is because he wants to conceal from Quebec's unemployed what is awaiting them in Canada, if ever they decided to vote no, which will not happen?

Since few in the South - only around 50% - manage to supplement their incomes through other activities, under-employment, or concealed unemployment, is endemic.

In his new budget, the Minister of Finance is determined to conceal his surpluses rather than turn them over to unemployed workers and middle income earners.