Thank you for that.
You mentioned fairness. One of the issues that a number of us have with Bill C-50, which is the bill the government has brought forward to deal with EI, is that we don't think it is fair. It's discriminatory. It picks winners and losers. Mr. Céré came before our committee in our consideration of that bill.
Quite often you compare apples and oranges, but I think the cost of your bill is somewhere around $1 billion. CCPA estimated it at I think $800 million; $700 million was looked at. TD says $1 billion. The estimated cost of Bill C-50 is $935 million. That's the government bill. You can look at them in somewhat comparative terms. Yours is an annual cost; theirs was over a longer period than a year. But if you look at the two bills proposed, one eliminating the two-week waiting period, versus Bill C-50, which does pick winners and losers and leaves a lot of people out in the cold--seasonal workers, part-time workers, and those who don't qualify--I'd like to ask both of you again if you think that in comparing these two bills, this would be better for Canadian workers than Bill C-50.