So one-time pillaging from the EI fund and selling off government assets. The actual surplus is somewhere in the order of $4 billion. The PBO estimates in two years the structural surplus could be somewhere in the order of $100 million. It's a very expensive program. It is estimated to help 14% of Canadians, and skews to the wealthier portion of those Canadians.
To Ms. Robson to start with, what does income splitting, as it is being currently discussed by government representation, do for single-parent families?