Thank you very much, Mr. Chair.
I just want to come back to the employment insurance question that you didn't have time to answer before.
Prepandemic, we had an inadequate EI system and premiums that were designed to adequately fund the inadequate system. Then during the pandemic, we had temporary changes. I don't think it was ever envisioned that the premiums structure that was in place for the inadequate system before the pandemic would be able to fund the changes from the pandemic. Now we're back to having the inadequate system, which is a retroactive burden on ratepayers to try to make up for what was spent during the course of the pandemic on an EI system that was nothing like what the premiums were designed to pay.
I would like an explanation as to why it is that the government thinks it's appropriate to back charge the EI system for what was, we hope, a once in a generation or longer event, and how the government intends to fund a meaningful modernization of employment insurance while the account is trying to pay back that debt.