I would like to welcome all the witnesses, particularly Christina, whose story I very much like.
My question is for Mr. Patry.
I don't want to make an inappropriate comment, but I wondered whether the initials of the author of your brief, B.Q., stood for “Bloc Québécois”. I must ask you quite an important question.
Last week, three employment insurance pilot projects were extended by eight months. If I follow your logic, that shouldn't have been done since the officials advised us against it. And yet they are the ones who requested a premium rate increase of 15¢ per $100. You say they should have proceeded that way and, in so doing, followed the Board's advice. They did not listen, and that was precisely in order to set funds aside to protect unemployed Canadian workers.
I'm trying to understand your logic. I don't know whether you have estimated what it would cost Canadians if everything you said earlier were implemented, that is to say increasing federal government spending and not cutting taxes, among other things. Whatever the case may be, Ms. Dionne, we definitely won't have any money to invest in our pension plans. Ultimately, you're asking for the moon.