Thank you, sir.
Ms. Russell, you made a rather impassioned plea, it seems, for keeping government revenues higher. It's kind of ironic, in a way. The reason you're here, I think, is in large part because the previous government's tendency was to use fiscal prudence excessively and to therefore create excessively large surpluses, which deprived Canadians of debate on the use of said surpluses, because their forecast didn't match what Canadians ended up producing in terms of surpluses. And now all of you are chiming in on the need for us to be fiscally prudent and to actually be very conservative in our projections, I think.
Madam Russell, you made the impassioned plea that we should make sure we have more revenue in the hands of government so we can do good things with it. I wonder if you extend that thesis to the idea that we've overtaxed Canadian workers--some estimates say by over $40 billion--certainly in the EI fund alone, over the last decade. Surely you don't carry that thesis to the idea of keeping the EI premiums excessively high, because that would really be a tax on Canadian workers and small business largely, wouldn't it?