Thank you, Chair.
And thank you, Minister, for being here this evening and taking time to spend it with us. I know you're a very busy individual.
I'm listening to my colleagues across the table here talk about EI. It makes me think about what they were proposing a couple of years ago, a 45-day work year where you could work 45 days and all of a sudden go on EI. Now Mr. Brison's talking about lowering EI rates even more. Here's a party that one day is going to make it so easy to get EI that provinces like Saskatchewan are going to have an even tougher time finding people, and then the next day he wants to lower EI rates. So we're not sure how he's ever going to get the money to spend on what he wants to spend it on.
That comes back to what you talked about in terms of stability, creating stability for the business community, whether it's EI rates or Canada Pension Plan rates. We just brought out the pooled pension plan. That is a program that I think will have some benefit once people start to give it time and take it up.
There's one thing I wanted to ask you about the break-even mechanism in seven years for EI, when you looked at EI going forward. Can you just touch on that, what that will do to EI rates going forward once that's in place?