Thank you, Madam Chair.
Thank you for your presentation.
We've gone through this information before. There was the Prime Minister's task force on business, as you know, not too long ago, so some of the recommendations are similar to what you've made today with respect to employment insurance, for instance. One of the recommendations was to allow for voluntary opting in, and I think you were suggesting the same thing today.
At that time, when we discussed it, the actuarial officials said it was not feasible to do that. Given that kind of information, would you be open to mandatory participation for entrepreneurs with respect to EI? Or would you only look at the voluntary opting in or out?
The reason I'm asking is that the officials, when they appeared in front of the committee on a previous study on maternity benefits for self-employed workers in 2005, said it would not be feasible to allow people to opt into EI for special benefits.