Yes, it was.
There is an argument. The maximum weekly insurable earnings should be around the average earnings, same as for the Canada and Quebec Pension Plan. The level had actually gone over the average earnings--it got higher--so the government said it was going to freeze it until it comes back down to average earnings and then index it to the increase in wages, which they did a couple of years ago. But it was ten years. Even with low inflation, it's 2% or 3% or 4% a year. So that's the reason for the decline.
But yes, there was a cost. We mentioned at the beginning that a lot of the reforms to EI over the years, in the 1990s and so on, were driven by cost. Absolutely.