The employment insurance system, as everyone knows, as a social insurance program, charges the same premiums to everyone no matter what their age, gender, risk of unemployment, province, industry, or occupation. Thus, in this scheme, one option would have been to apply the same principle and charge the same premium to these people as everyone else, the alternative being to make the program self-financing. I've given the numbers on the two options.
On December 10th, 2009. See this statement in context.