Mr. Speaker, the last government in fact reduced EI premiums 12 consecutive years in a row.
Canadians need a break from the $5.4 billion in job-killing EI payroll tax increases imposed by the Conservative government.
The scheme announced last week totally misses the mark. There is no link to job creation and it is capped, going only to firms with up to a dozen employees. If they go over that, they lose $2,200. That is an incentive to fire people.
Will the government simply provide a full EI refund to every employer who creates a new Canadian job? That would generate—