Minister, your argument with the provinces is that increasing payroll premiums would be bad for the economy, yet Bill C-4 actually keeps payroll premiums artificially high for a longer period of time.
Why not simply allow EI premiums to self-balance with payouts as the account moves into balance in 2015? If your argument to the provinces is that artificially high premiums on jobs or wages will hurt the economy, why are you keeping them high yourself in Bill C-4?