Thank you, Madam Chair.
There's no question that many would like to see improvements to the employment insurance program, but it is an insurance program, and of course as you increase the benefits, as with any other program, the cost of increasing them has to be taken into account.
Certainly, for example, there's one portion of this bill that talks about eliminating the existing qualification requirement for regular unemployment benefits by replacing the regionally differentiated qualification requirement. I take it you were opposed to that regionally differentiated qualification--