On that point, CSN would like the employment insurance fund to be independent and essentially administered by workers and employers because they're the ones who contribute to it. When the board was established, CSN said that was a step in the right direction, although it believed that the board's powers would not be strong enough for it to be able to play the role of a genuinely independent fund.
Now we see that the government is going against the board's decision because all it wants is to balance the budget in the short term. We believe that a lot of jobs have been lost during the economic crisis, which has been quite significant. A number have since been created, but they aren't always full-time jobs. So we would have liked a bigger increase in premium rates, as the board wanted, and an improvement to the employment insurance system, which is socially important for people who wind up unemployed during an economic crisis. It's also an economically important system because people are in a better position to consume if they have good employment insurance benefits than if they don't. In addition, people who don't have employment insurance quite often wind up as claimants under the provinces' income security programs. Ultimately, that transfers the fiscal burden from the federal government to the provincial governments.