Mr. Askari, I found your presentation really stimulating. In your remarks you stressed the importance not just of the concern about the cost-effectiveness of the small business job credit—exactly what we heard from Mr. Macdonald, 39¢ for the $100 coat was his analogy—but you went beyond that and said the bigger picture is that these proposals would affect the premium rate paid by employers or employees. It acts against legislation to detach the EI program from discretionary policy decisions. By that I guess you mean that the government's getting back into the discretionary policy decisions and not leaving the premium rate alone. Is that what I'm understanding? If so, why would that be done?
On November 18th, 2014. See this statement in context.