We actually have proposed an alternative to both those proposals. Building on the new hires program that your government has proposed...we like the youth hires program that your government had in place a number of years ago.
The current tax credit program does benefit some of our members, but it tends to benefit the small restaurant. If you want to expand to a second restaurant, it's not going to be as beneficial. But the year's basic exemption is a proposal that had all-party support back in the time when the EI fund was in surplus. It was endorsed by all parties in the human resources standing committee as well as the finance committee, but the government hasn't been in a position to be able to implement it because there hasn't been that kind of surplus for some time. Now that we are approaching a surplus in the account the opportunity presents itself again to have all parties agree to a year's basic exemption that really would make the EI system fairer for those at the lower end of the income scale as well as for labour-intensive employers.