By the way, we enjoy our conversations with the CFIB. We just don't want the federal government to outsource policy-making to a business lobby group, as they wouldn't to any other lobby group.
This is to Mr. Yussuff, specifically about the outsourcing that was done on this $550-million raid on the employment insurance program. I'm not sure if you were here while the minister was here. We asked the direct question. We've asked the finance department if they did any analysis of the impact on jobs, and at every occasion they said they relied on a business lobby group's estimate or they said flatly, “No, we have not done an analysis.”
What is the concern about using the employment insurance fund this way, when the government doesn't even bother to raise a pen or calculator to figure out what the impact may or may not be?