I agree with that.
Ms. Hughes, you referred to Ian Lee, when he spoke on CBC on Saturday morning, on The House, I think it was. You were in Manitoulin Island. I remember listening to that, and I was probably driving to or from a rink in Dartmouth—Cole Harbour. I remember being struck by his work, which originated in the Senate of the United States, in terms of evaluating different kinds of stimulus.
Clearly, stimulus that's put into what you might call the social infrastructure, particularly EI, is the most effective stimulus because of the fact that the people who get that money have to spend it. It goes into the economy, and I think the number he referenced was a 1.61 turnover rate in the economy, which put it ahead of infrastructure, and, as you've said, far ahead of tax breaks, particularly the kinds of tax breaks that have assisted the more well-off among us.
So if that's the inspiration for your bill, I commend you for it and I congratulate you on having brought it this far.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.