Of course it is, just as it's under a different jurisdiction for employment insurance, and we can say no, no, the employees will get hit retroactively, but the employer will never have to pay the employment insurance, even though they should have. Of course it was the Province of Quebec giving the subsidy, but what's pertinent here is that the initial revision of all their cases started with the Quebec revenue department. It was transferred to you, and you had to make the same determination, that contrary to their affirmation they're independent contractors and they should be subject to certain financial and fiscal and taxation rules. You're going after them now, saying no, all this while you were simple employees.
CGI had a strong corporate interest in convincing you and the Quebec department that they were employees because otherwise they lost those subsidies; that's what this is all about. That's why nobody from any of the other provinces has ever seen anything like this. That's why they are indeed the only ones who are in this case. It's because of that system.
So why is everything aligned against the employees? Why doesn't the employer ever take the hit? Why isn't there a level playing field? It's that way at EI; it's that way at Revenue. Have you made recommendations that this be changed or are we just going to continue hitting the individuals who are hard-working, who have done nothing wrong, who have done everything by the book--including your book? Are you at least going to change your interpretation bulletins? This is grossly unfair.