Thank you, Madam Chair.
Mr. Mendelsohn, I imagine you understand that employees and employers are somewhat reluctant to the idea of redirecting funds collected under the EI regime to those who haven't paid into it. In this particular case, we're talking about employees.
If we look back at the fund over time, we know that $57 billion from the EI fund was redirected to the overall budget. So, historically speaking, there's some understandable reluctance around redirecting money to people who didn't pay into the fund. Does your recommendation reflect the situation in Ontario? Do you think that other provinces, and in fact the entire country, would want or agree to allocating money from the EI fund to employees who didn't pay into it?