He has chosen to be an entrepreneur and we want him to be treated as such. That is why the Coalition des travailleuses et des travailleurs autonomes du Québec has always objected to any type of measure which would give certain self-employed workers benefits of the same type as the benefits salaried workers have, such as those conferred by their seniority, which would skew and alter the relationship self-employed workers have with their clients.

(15) Amendments to the Combined Nomenclature may not give rise to any substantive changes to the nature of the autonomous trade preferences.

33. Stresses the need to distinguish more clearly between research and innovation as activities which, while closely linked, have different objectives, means, instruments of intervention and working methods: research, carried out by enterprises in the interests of their own growth, should create new knowledge and should, by its nature, be exploratory, independent and risk-taking; innovation, by contrast, has the objective of creating new products, new services and new processes having a direct impact on the market, on society and on the life of enterprises as such;

A derivative right to benefits in kind shall, however, take priority over independent rights, where the independent right in the Member State of residence exists directly and solely on the basis of the residence of the person concerned in that Member State.

They will tell us, as she alluded to in her speech, that the nature of employment has changed and therefore the nature of unemployment has changed; that there is more part-time employment, more self- employment and all the rest of it.

It is perfectly normal to have jobs of a different nature than in the past, including independent jobs, which are perfectly acceptable in the new economy, and which should not be looked down on.