In your submission, you say in the interest of citizens' well-being, there must be a specific plan to eliminate the deficit. However, you are not providing any proposal to the finance committee on exactly how this deficit should be paid down.
It would have been useful to have some proposals. You are undoubtedly aware that during the 1990s, when the deficit ballooned out of proportion, the Liberal government, followed by the Conservative government, used the Employment Insurance Fund, worth some $57 billion, to pay down the deficit. Transfers to the provinces were also cut back.
Do you believe that this remains the right approach, or should the government take different action?
The Bloc Québécois proposed a debt-reduction plan that is rather significant. I would like to hear you talk to us about it, to see if the proposals contained in it are still interesting. Obviously, they are not addressed directly to workers, but I would like to know your opinion on them.