We do realize that it's important to keep EI premiums as low as possible. That's why in our economic action plan we froze the EI premiums for two years at $1.73, to make sure there were no disincentives in these particularly tough times to employers keeping people on the job. We also wanted to make sure that employees were able to keep as much money as possible in their pockets. So we did freeze it. Obviously, over time, there will be changes, though we didn't want those changes to happen right now while the economy is at its roughest.
On October 8th, 2009. See this statement in context.