Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
Thank you all for being here today. We appreciate your input. We've had a very robust discussion over the last little while on Bill C-43.
I have a couple of questions that I would first of all like to address to Mr. Askari.
As you know, our new small business job credit will lower EI premiums by 15% and save small businesses more than $550 million over the next two years. First of all, do you agree that this is real money that small businesses can use to defray the cost of hiring new workers and to take advantage of emerging economic opportunities?