It's the same thing as we've talked about with workers generally. Those people who are self-employed are no more inclined to abuse the system than anybody here sitting in this room. Mr. Battle may know the more recent statistics, but when I was doing social work the statistics were at about 3%, in any kind of a social system, for what might be considered abuse, whether it was EI, health care, or somebody coming in late to work, whatever it may be. So the same thing applies with the self-employed.
On March 5th, 2009. See this statement in context.