I'm wondering if you can explain the rationale that would allow this, in terms of the history there, because it doesn't seem to make sense. Mr. Lessard was making this point, that it doesn't seem to make sense that we would collect money from employers and employees and then use it to fund the gun registry—that doesn't make a whole lot of sense—or anything else that the government does, after telling them that it was for an EI program. What was the rationale that allowed it to be spent on something else?
On May 1st, 2008. See this statement in context.