While I do understand, having played in this kind of film, there's no $57 billion amount that suddenly appears or disappears. So we can't say that, from 1995 to 2009, the government, whether it be the Liberal Party or the Conservative Party, enjoyed that surplus of premiums, essentially from employers and employees, none of which came from the government.
To all intents and purposes, we are recreating another account. As you told my Liberal colleague—and we see it on pages 197 and 202 of the budget volume—in the government's budgetary revenues, a line underlining the employment insurance premiums of $16.9 billion, $16.6 billion, etc. and that goes up to $26.6 billion. On page 202, there are employment insurance benefits, which, as if by chance, are slightly lower.
So to make the account balance, despite the 500 pages we have here and the nearly 900 pages of the bill, there isn't a little line indicating that premiums less benefits equals the balance, and the cumulative balance. That wasn't done.
Do you intend to suggest to your minister that it be done?