Hence the lack of a tie.
I apologize again for not being here for the presentation, but I am interested in canvassing your ideas—as briefly as I can, Chair—on the subject of using employment insurance to bolster apprenticeship training or to take on, as it were, sharing the risks in training, particularly in the apprenticeships and the trades. Would you have any opinions with respect to using EI to that effect, so that you would have perhaps a greater number of people taking up training, over a four- to five-year period for a journeyman or whatever the case may be, and with less risk to the employer?
I note that there is a comment here in French from the Canadian Manufacturers & Exporters:
“Introduce a training tax credit creditable against EI premiums.“
I'd just like some comments, if you would.