No, I don't think this is the best way to reform employment insurance. In fact, as we outlined earlier, our concern is that the costs of this are going to make job creation and getting the economy back on track more difficult by adding additional costs to the system.
The changes that were made in the January budget I think were more preferable and were ones that were more favourable to small firms, such as the extension of benefits for all workers, the changes to the work-sharing program. These are some of the changes that we in fact liked more than the changes in this bill, particularly in that the government had agreed to pay for those out of general revenue, as opposed to calling back the fund to pay for it, as this bill will do.