We're already concerned. The economic and fiscal projections in September seem to indicate that premiums on payrolls are going to go up 21ยข per $100 every year from 2011 to 2015. The impact of that will be devastating for a labour-intensive industry like food service. It's extremely frustrating when you consider the over-contributions of $57 billion to a rainy-day fund. We were one of the groups that were pleased to see EI in a separate fund, so that the tap was turned off for over-contributions by employees or employers. But now we're in a situation in which the new financing board lacks the funds necessary to keep premiums at a level that won't hurt job creation and economic growth.
We would like to see the federal government divert some dollars back to the board, so that there isn't a need to raise EI premiums. We would like to see a yearly basic exemption that would give relief to lower-income workers as well as labour-intensive businesses. That would be our recommendation.