Freezing the EI premiums.... I worked in the finance department of a company, and the fact is that in our current climate, the EI premiums likely would have been around $1.85. Today they're frozen at $1.73. That would add jobs. Would you suggest that freezing EI rates will in fact help add jobs to this economy? At the company I worked for, just the fact of freezing that rate was going to add one job at over $43,000. Is that what your economic research has also indicated?
On April 28th, 2009. See this statement in context.