Thank you.
I want to follow up on some of the questions from Mr. Cullen on the EI tax credit.
Your report on the government's small business job credit predicted only 800 jobs would be created over two years at a cost of almost $700,000 per job.
From our perspective, this credit provides employers with a perverse incentive, to hire only once they are near the $15,000 cut-off for EI premiums.
One aspect of this was referred to by my colleague Ralph Goodale who asked you to look at how many businesses are near the $15,000 threshold. Specifically he asked you whether you could find out how many businesses paid between $14,000 to $16,000 in EI premiums in 2013.
Were you able to get this information from the government?