Yes, the creation of the CEIFB was a terrific measure, one we had pushed for for years and years. Had it been done a decade ago we would be in much better shape, because the surplus dollars would have been invested in a fund that we could then draw on in this difficult economic time. Instead, that money was pulled into general revenues and is now not available for us in weaker economic times. But the challenge with this is the timing. The creation of the board was excellent. It was the right public policy move, and all MPs who supported it I think are to be congratulated. The challenge of it, though, is that the creation of it at this particular point in time means that all of the surplus dollars that had been taken out of the fund in the past are gone, and now the fund is going to be stuck with the deficits. So we feel that this is incredibly unfair.
It's fine, as my colleague Corinne Pohlmann noted, for the EI fund to be called on to pay for these additional benefits at this particular point in time if it were also given some of the surplus dollars. If you're not going to refund the entire $57 billion surplus, we do feel that the government has a moral obligation to at least ensure that the new fund has enough money to ride out recessionary times. I think $10 billion to $15 billion would be a good start.