Thank you, Chair.
Thank you to all of the witnesses for appearing this morning, bright and early. I appreciate your being here.
I'd like to ask, if I could, Mr. Macdonald, first, from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.... There was a lot of commonality between your presentation and that of Mr. Askari, the assistant parliamentary budget officer, but in a sense he went further. Your point, if I may summarize it, is that the small business job tax credit is inadequate. Its incentives are too small.
You had an alternative, which was to get people to use payroll numbers to administer the program, if we're going to go there, but you said in conclusion that we would have done a lot better in attaining the objective if we used greater support for employment insurance itself. I think you didn't complete that last thought. You didn't have time. Could you elaborate on why you think you'd have more impact with that recommendation than by using the small business job tax credit?