Thank you very much, Chair, and thanks to the ministers and their staff for being here this morning.
My first question is on EI. We have a 31% increase in people receiving EI in my own community. When you consider the statistics we're seeing now, that 99% of the jobless in Newfoundland and Labrador are eligible for EI, while 31% are eligible in Ontario, do you and your government think there should be one EI system for all Canadians, given that we're all citizens paying into the system and should expect that those services would be available to us wherever we live when we need them? Is it yes or no?