Thank you very much, Mr. Chair. I will share my time with Mr. Rankin.
Mr. Yussuff, I would like to come back to the issue of employment insurance.
You are very familiar with the program and the 2008 and 2014 Supreme Court rulings. In 2002, the former Auditor General stated in her report that the employment insurance fund surpluses, at that time, were contrary to the spirit of the law and that, under such circumstances, the government should review the premium rate-setting mechanism.
The Supreme Court agreed with that opinion in its 2008 ruling. Moreover, in 2014, the court reaffirmed its statement from 2008. Despite everything, the government uses the employment insurance surpluses for an initiative whose only goal is to provide businesses with premium holidays, with no strings attached.
Do you agree that one of the government's responsibilities would be to establish an independent premium-setting mechanism to ensure that employers and employees would pay premiums proportional to the benefits they can receive?