Let me answer all three of your questions.
The current system, which contains, I believe, 50-some zones and 50-some different qualifications, where someone living almost across the street has a different qualifying period, makes no sense to me. It needs to be fixed.
On the second issue--can we talk about the skilled trade deficit?--we do LMI studies through the construction sector council on an annual basis. I can get you some of that material, and I will undertake to do so and get it to the committee in reasonable time.
Thirdly, how would I make EI better through the funding arrangement? I think the short answer to that is, EI needs to be self-funding, and if it builds a surplus, a reasonable surplus needs to be maintained in order to look out for those rainy days. I would say that succeeding governments of Canada used EI for their discretionary funding and we're now paying the price for that.