We should bring this into context. We want the history lesson because we take some things for granted here now. We take balanced budgets and surplus budgets for granted.
To think back when the Auditor General made the recommendation and the recommendation was followed to put the EI account into general revenues, we have to remember that the unemployment rate was at 12.5%, that interest rates were at 12.5%, that CPP was on the rocks, so things had to be done. We can certainly go back as deep as we want and put whatever view we want on it, but that's the reality.
You indicated in one of your previous answers that the board could decide to increase rates. Could they also decide to cut benefits, should we run into a protracted period of...? The board cannot do that? Where would that have to come from, if that was ever to evolve? Would that have to come to Parliament?