Well, given that the AG, in the mid-1980s, suggested very strongly that the government consolidate EI expenditures and EI premium revenue collections within the CRF, the moment you had a surplus it had to go towards debt reduction if there was an overall government surplus.
As I explained previously, even if we have the best experts in the country, it's very difficult to very accurately predict what the precise EI premium rate should be when you are in October of, for example, 1994. Expecting to be exactly on target for the whole of 1995 is extremely difficult. Actuaries, by nature, tend to be very prudent. That's why we have pension plans that are solvent, generally speaking, and that's why we have insurance that is solvent, because actuaries are prudent, so there is money left in the bank. And they tend to be prudent, as well, when explaining or suggesting what their premium rate should be. That, in retrospect, led to surpluses over a number of years. These surpluses, due to the nature of the recommendations of the AG in 1986, had to be consolidated into the overall government fiscal framework.
The government back then was running overall surpluses, and yet again, according to the AG's recommendations, these automatically have to go towards debt reduction. So that's what led to this situation.